New CNN.com Goes All Out On Video
CNN.com is gearing up for a big relaunch on Monday, and has added many an online video project, in addition to featuring video content front and center above the fold in its new layout.
iReport section: iReport will be better integrated into the site, with more hands-on curation, including vetting and commentary by CNN producers.
Facebook partnership: CNN.com has been at the forefront of online social TV through its partnership with Facebook for the Obama Inauguration and the Michael Jackson memorial live streams. However, such functionality has been doled out sparingly to only the biggest collective events. Now CNN.com is trying to create such an centerpiece of its own, with a planned live Oprah’s Book Club interactive web event on Nov. 9 at 9 p.m. ET. The 90-minute event will include questions submitted through Facebook Connect and iReport for author Uwem Akpan regarding his new short story compilation Say You’re One of Them.
New web series: In the vein of its Freshman Year series about freshman congressmen, CNN.com has put together two more first-person documentaries. Americans in Afghanistan
is about two American non-profit workers in Afghanistan, and The Handsome Furs Tour Asia features the indie rock band of the same name using a couple of Flip cams while traveling the world.
Trivia game: CNN Challenge will be a news trivia game hosted by Larry King, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Robin Meade about the top stories of the week.
Outside videos: The site will syndicate the popular TED Talks series, videos from the mind-bending interdisciplinary conference, accompanied by follow-up interviews with speakers and additional reporting and commentary.
Also today, MSNBC told Beet.TV it has adjusted its embeddable player to be included on Facebook.
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How does it compare against Fox and MSNBC?
And what about the online post shows for the cable news networks? Every Wednesday, Fox’s “Special Report with Bret Braier” has a half-hour online show directly following their show. Mr. Braier monitors a chatbox which viewers can submit questions and comments from which he will use to ask or comment to “The Panel”. The Panel being the same one as was on the show that day and, if they’re not needed by the “Fox Report” that is airing currently on the cable channel, usually enlarging its size with the White House reporter, Capitol Hill reporter, and another reporter that will join The Panel at the table in the studio. It is much more informal and relaxed than the regular show. They laugh more, joke, and even take off their coats at times. That and they will pull back the cameras to show you how the show looks from the production side. When they did that on the White House reporter, the lighting and gear set-up that we don’t see that we did see then looked almost comical.
@Scott – I like MSNBC’s metadata handling and also their efforts to get onto other platforms through embedding and mobile. Fox I think is a little behind on video though they did just bring on EveryZing to organize and index things, which should help a lot. I’d assume they’ll also move off Maven soon. CNN is front and center on the social stuff and citizen journalism but I’m not sure they’re pushing it as far as they could go.
CNN does know how to remain in the “news” everywhere and all the time.
Yes, fact-checking Saturday Night Live skits is definitely “news”. LOL
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http://thetechnologycafe.com/cnn-com-gets-a-revamped-improved-facelift/