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Jun 4, 2013
Focus on the media: a farewell to old traditions
It was made evident last week that the newspaper industry continues to undergo dramatic changes when the Chicago Sun-Times laid […]
May 30, 2013
The media industry embraces Instagram
Late last week, the Dallas Morning News caught a grayish morning city skyline using Instagram. The photo was accompanied by […]
May 29, 2013
Focus on the media: satirical based sites and their contribution to misinformed reporting
There’s been a lot of discussion about journalists getting facts wrong lately because of the need to break news first. […]
May 24, 2013
Patch.com makes layoffs/ redesigns and plans for a profitable future
Since Patch.com launched its first sites in 2007 and then was acquired by AOL in 2009. It has been scrutinized […]
May 23, 2013
Xbox One Reveal
In late February, we looked at the social media reactions to Sony’s PlayStation 4 announcement and found a few interesting […]
May 23, 2013
BuzzFeed Bets on Business, Cat Power
The site launches two new verticals, growing its community and challenging traditional publishers
May 22, 2013
Data editors cut to the meat of news-centered tweets
Twitter, the global real-time communication platform with 400 million monthly visitors and a billion tweets every 2.5 days has become […]
May 21, 2013
Focus on the media: accuracy over speed
CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Scott Pelley recently accepted the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award from Connecticut’s Quinnipiac […]
May 17, 2013
Print media embraces video in a big way
In an interview with BeetTV, Rick Berke, recently named senior editor and director of video content development at the New […]
May 15, 2013
Federal investigators’ seizure of the AP’s phone records draws journalists’ ire
Much of the media industry is understandably upset by the recent news that federal investigators secretly confiscated two months’ worth […]
May 14, 2013
Focus on the Media: How much latitude should the government have over news gathering?
The Associated Press has filed a letter of protest with the U.S. Attorney’s General’s office after learning the Justice Department […]
May 14, 2013
How Arianna Huffington Conquered the News
All brands have milestones to conquer before they can take center stage and Demand Success speaker Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post was no exception. Here's how it happened, milestone by milestone.
May 10, 2013
Times-Picayune’s new tabloid launch met with uncertainty
When Advance Publications announced a year ago that they would be cutting the Times-Picayune’s daily frequency back to three days […]
May 9, 2013
Beer is Back
Beer has been a cornerstone of civilization since the first batches were brewed thousands of years ago. Today, beers of […]
May 8, 2013
Do journalists fear Twitter?
In November 2012, sports reporter Lance Witten with South Africa’s eNCA news station was suspended from work when he posted […]
