Steve Safran
News Corp introduces ‘The Daily’ for iPad
UPDATE: “The Daily,” the first national digital-only “newspaper” launched today, following a press conference with News Corp, the paper’s publisher, and Apple. “The Daily” It will sell for 99 cents a week or $40 a year and is available on the iTunes Apps section. It will publish 365 days a year. Apple is playing a [...]
Al Jazeera now streaming on TV in U.S. via Roku
Roku, the streaming video player company, has added the live feed of Al Jazeera to its offerings. For mostly political reasons, US cable companies are reluctant to offer the Qatar-based news network. But the crisis in Egypt has shown Al Jazeera to be an excellent news organization, and many people are now calling upon their [...]
Study: More than 60% of Americans have social account
The consultancy Delloite is out with its fifth edition of its survey “State of Media Democracy,” and it’s full of interesting information. Among the tidbits: 61% of Americans now have a social networking site/page. Nearly 75% are multi-tasking while watching TV. “42 percent are online, 29 percent are talking on cellphones or mobile devices, and [...]
What social media are you using for snowstorm coverage?
We’re looking for great examples of stations and networks utilizing social media to cover the snowstorm. Most stations are using Facebook and Twitter these days, so let’s try to go a step beyond. Tell us, in the comments, what your media organization is experimenting with to help tell the tale of this huge storm. UPDATE: [...]
Scribd proving to be valuable resource for Egypt news
We want to arm stations with good tools for their coverage of Egypt. Go to Scribd today and you’ll find a wealth of good documents. Under the heading “Unrest in Egypt 2011,” there is a petition from 14 human rights and trade organizations. You’ll also find: A memo from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; [...]
CNN reporter comes up with social workaround from Egypt
We’re monitoring the various broadcasts and social updates from Egypt, and CNN reporter Nic Robertson, who is in Alexandria, just shared how he’s Tweeting @NicRobertsonCNN. Egypt has been blocking the internet – sporadically it turns out. Nic tells CNN he is calling his wife and she is Tweeting for him. (And he’s updating constantly.) It’s [...]
Lost Remote welcomes Paul Balcerak to the ranks
Our ever-rotating panel of dedicated writers has a new face. Please welcome Paul Balcerak to LR Nation. Paul is a multimedia journalist and blogger. By day, he works as a web producer and manages social media for KIRO 7, the Cox-owned CBS station in Seattle; by night, he blogs about journalism and new media on [...]
Networks are paying close attention to social media
Encouraging news came out of Friday’s #TVNext conference in Boston: the networks are paying attention to social media and are working on strategies to merge it with their TV shows. The Boston advertising agency Hill Holiday put on the event at which a number of executives from broadcast, cable and internet networks discussed their social [...]
Mobile: The interface matters
Now that local TV is starting to get hip to the possibilities of mobile news, it’s time to look at what can make an app stand out. The best apps are those that take content you have and present them in a new, engaging way. The worst? The apps that just list the stories you [...]
Check out the new Lost Remote Networking
We have started up a LinkedIn group dedicated to networking in this vast industry of ours. At Lost Remote Networking, we’re posting jobs as we hear of them, and we hope you will do so as well. We don’t want to limit this to a “jobs only” venture – after all, we have a jobs [...]
Fact-checking the State of the Union speech
The New York Times deserves a second shout-out today, thanks to its great interactive that fact-checks the State of the Union in real time. The feature combines the full video and transcript of the speech along with Times fact-checking and reader reaction from around the Web. It’s a great piece of tech and journalism. For [...]
New York Times considering its own ‘Wikileaks’
Is the Wikileaks concept about to go mainstream? New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller says he’s considering starting a way for leakers to upload their documents directly to the Times. Keller tells Yahoo’s “The Cutline“: “A small group from computer-assisted reporting and interactive news, with advice from the investigative unit and the legal department, [...]
White House ups social presence for State of the Union
“You’ve Never Seen a State of the Union Address Like This Before” is the title of an entry at the White House blog. The Obama administration is looking to take advantage of the social media tools to coincide with the speech — and beyond. They are calling the speech the “Enhanced State of the Union.” [...]
Olbermann will live-tweet the State of the Union
For those who are so inclined to keep a laptop with them while watching the State of the Union at 9 (ET) tonight, Keith Olbermann has just sent word that he will live-tweet the speech. Olbermann has also nabbed the Twitter name @FOKNewsChannel, which marries the #FOK “Friends of Keith” concept with a not-so-subtle touch [...]
BreakingNews.com curating Egypt protest pics and vids
Breaking News is searching the web for pictures and video of the protests in Egypt. I recommend checking this out, because it’s a great example of how sites should curate news and not just post their own. The site has set up a filter for “Egypt Protests” and is smartly curating stories about how social [...]
YouTube hosting ‘Your Interview with the President’
As a follow-up to his State of the Union speech, President Obama will take questions. Only the questions won’t be from the media – they will be from you. YouTube is taking questions for its event, “Your Interview with the President” on Thursday. You can submit your questions at youtube.com/askobama or via Twitter using the [...]
Olbermann’s big announcement: ‘Thanks.’
Six hours after announcing he would announce something on Twitter, Keith Olbermann put forth this tweet followed by another with a mobile photo of himself. That was anti-climactic. But it became a trending topic, nonetheless.
Comcast deal means NBC loses management of Hulu
NBCU will have to relinquish its “management rights” at Hulu under the newly-approved joint venture announced by the FCC and the Department of Justice. The agreement took more than a year to reach. One of the issues to those who were concerned about the deal was that Comcast would have too much control over both [...]
We love you too, Twitter
I’m going to invoke editor’s privilege here for a second. Twitter’s media team (@twittermedia) has given Lost Remote a thumbs-up. Sweet. (Thanks for the heads up, @radiofreegeorgy.)
REPLAY: Should we delete incorrect tweets?
UPDATE: The live chat is over, but you can watch the rerun here by hitting “play.” (Nothing more exciting than watching a rerun of text posting occasionally…) The big thing to come out of this? People want some way of editing tweets, whether it’s by rewriting the text (my choice) or having a strikethrough (popular [...]
