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Topeka’s WIBW.com attracted 1.1 million page views on 136,000 unique users when the tornados hit earlier this month — not bad considering the market has only 117,000 households. The GM at WIBW is so sold on the web, he covered up the word “TV” in the big “WIBW” sign in front of the station. (TVNewsday free registration required.)
7 comments June 23rd, 2008
Good cover story in Broadcasting & Cable looks at the decline of investigative reporting, in part due to constricting TV news budgets, fewer hours of magazine shows on the air and a reluctance to take legal risks.
1 comment June 23rd, 2008
And it’s a little different than you might expect. Full-length episodes of some ABC shows are now appearing on Veoh, but when you click the player to watch, it links you off to ABC’s player (example). The deal involves ABC paying Veoh for the referrals, reports PaidContent. Only the shorter-form clips will be physically hosted on Veoh — the rest will link to ABC.com.
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Tom Brokaw has volunteered to take over as the host of “Meet the Press” through the end of the election year. “When Tom proposed this idea, we jumped at it,” NBC News President Steve Capus told the NY Times, adding: “It was a huge relief. It offers us some time.”
Personally, I can’t think of a better journalist to take the helm. Brokaw takes over on June 29th. Press release follows below…
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Huffington Post will launch local news sites in “dozens of cities,” with Chicago as the first stop. “We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news, not just the political blogging the way we began,” said Arianna Huffington. The Chicago site, to start, will be run by a single editor.
7 comments June 20th, 2008
Seems rather intuitive that online video is taking away from TV’s “share of screen,” but here’s the data. Among people who download and/or watch video online, the percentage of video viewed on TV has dropped from 75 to 70 percent over the last year. Video on a computer has climbed from 11 to 19 percent. Among 18-24 year olds, 27 percent of their viewing is on a computer. As Lost Remote commenter “tdc” said in an earlier post, you’re starting to hear people say they “watched it online” instead of “watched it on TV” more frequently. Says Adam Wright, Director at Ipsos MediaCT, “These share gains in non-traditional video channels (are) not simply an isolated, generation-driven market effect, but rather a large macro-trend in the way consumers want their video content delivered.”
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News aggregator Topix is beefing up its local presence with deals with Eventful (events), InfoUSA (local business directory), Zap2it (movies and TV), LiveDeal (pet classifieds), Apartments.com and Informa Research (mortgage data.) It seems that Topix, which powers discussion forums for several local media companies, wants to become the one-stop-shopping of local.
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Freshly-hatched VideoIsNow focuses on one topic: monetizing web video. Video Is Now also includes a widget to check out video ads in action. Speaking of, it led me to something from ‘07 but new-to-me: NPR theme song guy B.J. Leiderman’s video ad, which looks to be produced on the cheap.
7 comments June 19th, 2008
CBS is rolling out the rest of its owned-and-operated stations in the widget-powered ad network for local bloggers. (Our original story here). Click through below for the press release from KYW-TV explaining the new network…
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Read this round-up from PaidContent (on the heels of the McClatchy layoffs a few days ago and the Hearst CEO stepping down) and you’ll feel like pouring yourself a stiff drink. It’s all very sad.
3 comments June 19th, 2008
The Associated Press has issued a vague statement surrounding its bizarre attempt to remove short excerpts of its content from the Drudge Retort. It says the AP provided additional content to the Drudge Retort “aimed at enabling Mr. Cadenhead to bring the contributed content on his site into conformance with the policy he earlier set for his contributors. Both parties consider the matter closed.” The statement goes on to say that the AP spoke with some bloggers about it, and the “resolution of the matter illustrates that the interests of bloggers can be served while still respecting the intellectual property rights of news providers.” Meanwhile, everyone continues to beat up on the AP — TechCrunch is even issuing the AP a takedown order for a TechCrunch quote that appeared on the wire. And the LA Times published an opinion saying the AP “pulled a Metallica online,” which is to say, illustrated its “cluelessness about the internet.”
2 comments June 19th, 2008
The Mozilla Project logged 8,290,545 downloads of the brand new Firefox 3 in just 24 hours. That’s sets a new record for the most software downloads in a single day. So Firefox 3 users, do you like the new version?
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Gannett has invested in Cozi, a social networking tool that lets family members keep a group journal, share photos, organize chores, share calendars and create to do lists. TechCrunch reports the investment is in the $8 million range. “The Cozi investment could help Gannett as it stitches together an ad network of its 60 local mom sites over the next month,” reports PaidContent, which certainly makes sense.
6 comments June 19th, 2008
I had the honor of being a respondent on an extraordinary panel yesterday at SILVERDOCS, the AFI/Discovery independent documentary festival and conference. The title of the session was “It’s Not Just a Game: Storytelling in the Virtual Space,” and moderator Denise DiIanni of WGBH Labs led this fantastic lineup:
Trisha Creekmore, Executive Director, Discovery.com
Nonny De La Peña, Producer and Director, GITMO GONE- VIRTUAL GUANTANAMO
Ken Ellis, Executive Producer, Edutopia - The George Lucas Educational Foundation
Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming, BAVC: Bay Area Video Coalition
Suzanne Seggerman, President and Co-Founder, Games for Change
Sharon Sloane, President and CEO, WILL Interactive, Inc.
Excellent work is being done both independently and at bigger shops, but we are only just scratching the surface of the immense potential of the most dynamic communications platform to date. From discussions about using Second Life as a backlot for machinima to how to balance visuals with selectivity and interactivity in development, the presentations and conversations ranged across production, ethics, and storytelling. Interestingly, most serious games are what the game market considers casual games and most storytellers bemoan the sorry state of storytelling in major games. I get the feeling that is all poised to change.
1 comment June 19th, 2008
Chuck Lewis and Wendell Cochran, two of my colleagues on the faculty at American University’s School of Communication, have launched the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Mark Glaser talks to Chuck on Mediashift about the peril facing investigative reporting in today’s media marketplace and how IRW is designed to not only save the craft, but push forward into new territory with innovation and experimentation.
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The head of the Hearst Corporation, Victor Ganzi, has left the company, citing “irreconcilable policy differences” with the Hearst family trust. The reason wasn’t disclosed, but sources tell the NYTimes that it revolved around the level of investment in newspapers and digital strategy. “The word had come from on high that they weren’t doing enough getting into digital, nothing big enough to fundamentally change the business model,” a source told the NYTimes. Sounds like just about every media company’s challenge these days.
2 comments June 18th, 2008
So let’s say your news organization publishes a story about some guy who’s arrested/charged in a crime. Three months later, he’s acquitted. But when you Google his name, the original story about his arrest appears at the top. The story about his acquittal is buried two pages down. Should you go into the original story and update it? “I’m tempted to say that news organizations have the responsibility to update these stories,” blogs Mike Orren at PegasusNews.com, who makes a point of updating them.
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It begins at 4 p.m. ET, and msnbc.com is streaming it live right here.
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