Almost all of those who published offensive cartoons from the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were online media outlets, and virtually all of those who refrained from doing so were traditional media. Why the difference?…
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Flipboard is acquiring Zite from CNN, forming broad advertising and content partnership with news and media giant
Flipboard, a leading mobile news-reading and content-sharing app, is acquiring one of its main competitors -- an app called Zite -- from CNN for a reported $60 million and forming an advertising and content partnership with CNN for all of the media giant's content…
Read MoreTwitter wants to help media partners find the news faster — and also help itself in the process
A Twitter analytics company called Dataminr is building a custom version of its search tools for news companies like CNN, something that will help media outlets use Twitter better -- but will also help reinforce Twitter's brand as a breaking-news source…
Read MoreTexas and Turkey show why Twitter is often the only media outlet that matters
Twitter may not want to be seen as a media entity, but when news breaks and traditional media outlets are not around -- as in Texas and Turkey -- it quickly becomes the only media source that matters…
Read MoreBarry Diller: The internet is eating the cable company
"The domino is going to fall," IAC chairman Barry Diller predicted. How fast and how hard, we don't exactly know, but the television market is ripe for change.…
Read MoreBuzzFeed partners with CNN, announces LA-based “social video” studio (Update)
Viewers got a first taste of a new partnership between BuzzFeed and CNN with a video clip that appeared on the viral site Tuesday morning. The deal also appears to involve syndicating YouTube content.…
Read MoreNews flash: Twitter doesn’t have to hire journalists to be a powerful media competitor
Twitter says it doesn't have any interest in hiring reporters or performing other journalistic functions -- but regardless of whether it does so, it is still a powerful media entity and one that grows stronger by the day.…
Read MoreCNN looks to former NBC boss to fix flailing network
CNN, struggling to find an identity and rebuild its audience, has turned to an old-time TV stalwart. Jeffrey Zucker, the former CEO of NBC, is expected to be formally named CNN President shortly.…
Read MoreWhen armies become media: Israel live-blogs and tweets an attack on Hamas
How does it change the way we perceive a war when the armies involved become media entities -- publishing their own live news reports, uploading photos and videos and even live-tweeting their attacks as they happen? The Israeli army has started doing just that.…
Read MoreStudy: News sites take a huge hit on election night
If you weren't clicking on news sites on election night, you were probably better off. Yottaa's monitors showed that almost every major online news site fared very poorly when the results started to flow in with page load times hitting 50 seconds.…
Read MorePlagiarism, defamation and the power of hyperlinks
If Fareed Zakaria and Jonah Lehrer had spent more time linking to the original sources of content they used in their writing, they wouldn't have faced accusations of plagiarism. Their cases and a recent defamation lawsuit against Gawker Media help reinforce the value of the hyperlink.…
Read MoreZite adds LA Times, Chicago Tribune, others to its publishers program
Personalized reading app Zite is adding additional publishers to its three-month-old publisher program. New additions include The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hearst's "Harper's Bazaar," the International Business Times and others. All will have their own sections within Zite.…
Read MoreShould you be first or right with the news? Yes
A major error in CNN's reporting of a landmark Supreme Court decision on Thursday has provided even more ammunition for the ongoing debate over whether it is better to be right rather than first, and whether the scoop as we know it is dead.…
Read MoreCNN Mashing Up With Mashable? Not So Fast
CNN might yet end up as the owner of Mashable but it's not imminent despite a single-source report from Felix Salmon at *Reuters*.…
Read MoreTwitter and the incredible shrinking news cycle
Instead of appearing on TV or in a newspaper, events like the death of Whitney Houston are as likely to be reported in a tweet or on Facebook -- and in the long run, this shrinking of the traditional "news cycle" could be a good thing.…
Read MoreZite Brings Intel Inside Its Technology Section In Sponsorship Deal
Zite has cut a deal with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) to have the chip giant sponsor the technology section of its mobile news reading app, only the s……
Read MoreIs Piers Morgan Becoming Baggage For CNN?
If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview……
Read MoreHow 9/11 helped to change the media landscape
Thinking about September 11 makes me realize how much the media landscape -- particularly on the web -- was transformed by those events, and how very different the world is now when it comes to how we experience real-time news thanks to social media like Twitter.…
Read MoreWhat CNN could learn by acquiring Zite
If CNN is smart, watching what happens inside Zite's news-reading app could give it something that all media companies are in desperate need of -- whether they know it or not: real-time insights into what people really want to read about and why.…
Read MoreUpdated: CNN Snaps Up iPad Magazine Zite In Bid For Scale And Technology
As rumored a week ago, CNN has purchased Zite, the makers of a personalized iPad magazine application that aggregated content around user pr……
Read MoreWill buying Zite make CNN better or Zite worse?
CNN announced Thursday that it has acquired personalized iPad newsreader application Zite. CNN says that Zite will continue to operate as a separate app, and I talked to CNN's KC Estenson and Zite's Mark Johnson to discuss how the companies will navigate those waters.…
Read MoreRetweeting rumors and the reality of news as a process
Are those who post unverified reports on Twitter playing an important role in the new ecosystem of news, or being irresponsible and indulging in gossip? That question goes to the heart of the idea of news as a process rather than a finished product.…
Read MoreThe Young Turks–MSNBC dispute is a cautionary tale
This week's drama between The Young Turks creator and host Cenk Uygur and MSNBC has a sad tinge of inevitability to it, given the compromises required by the mainstream media. The major twist is just how loudly Uygur is raging against his former employer.…
Read MoreMobile Lowdown 7-21-11: Nokia; AT&T; LulzSec; Mobile Games; Mobile Ads; CNN
A look at some of the top stories today in mobile: -- Nokia (NYSE: NOK), AT&T earnings: The Finnish handset maker is due to report earning……
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