CBS New York rolls out new website model
In what is likely to be the pilot of CBS O&O sites to come, WCBS in New York City has relaunched its website as CBS New York. Its most notable feature is a news “river” – brief story updates run continuously throughout the day. This is the trend. Writes Broadcasting & Cable’s Mike Malone: CBSNewYork.com [...]
Roundup: Google Wave, Patch, All-traffic channel
Google Wave waves goodbye. (Yes, I realize other people are using roughly the same headline.) Patch comes to Boston, is now in 99 communities. The case for Newsweek as a non-profit. California Watch’s distribution model, by the numbers. Very interesting. NY1 will roll out a 24-hour traffic channel.
Roundup: August 3, 2010
91 year-old Sidney Harman has made some kickass stereo equipment in his day. But is his purchase of Newsweek a smart idea? The Daily Beast uncovered some internal documents that paint a bleak picture, even for someone who paid $1 for the franchise. The New York Times is offering its iPhone/iPad platform to publishers for [...]
Welcome new LR blogger Polly Kreisman
We at One LR Plaza have a new colleague! Please welcome Polly Kreisman to the ranks of the LR blogging team. Polly wrote a piece for us earlier this week (which was tweeted 25 times), the first of many we’ll be publishing. Polly brings an entrepreneurial perspective to Lost Remote; she has started the local [...]
Follow Lost Remote in the new Digg
If you have an account in the alpha (or is it beta?) version of the new Digg, which has yet to launch, we just added Lost Remote, so please give us a follow. The new Digg adds a “following” feature, a la Twitter, to allow you to customize your own story feed by following different [...]
Roundup: Paid Business Model Edition
Global Post, which hoped for 25,000 paying members, has fewer than 500. Is changing pricing model. Good for them for being transparent. (Disclosure: I worked for Global Post boss Phil Balboni.) Times of London, which lost 90 percent of its readership when it erected a pay wall, is giving iPad readers another free month. TV [...]
Washington Post adds Mark Luckie of 10,000 Words fame
Talk about a great hire and an even better story… The Washington Post has hired Mark Luckie to be its “national innovations editor.” Mark is the guy behind the 10,000 Words blog (an LR fave), a great Twitter feed @10,000 words, and he was the multimedia producer for California Watch. Notes Nieman Reports – Mark’s [...]
