SnappyTV, one of the companies presenting at this week’s Social TV Summit, used their technology in real-time to pull together this excellent collection of highlight video clips from the summit. Click below for videos from each of the sessions from SnappyTV Session 1: Welcome & Morning...
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News organizations are primarily using Twitter to distribute their own headlines, rather than engage with their audiences or curate information from other sources, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington...
Keep reading » The future of social TV is being discussed among executives from networks, major social media companies and start-ups at the Social Media Summit in New York. You can watch the live stream of the summit here all day today. POST-SUMMIT UPDATE: You can watch the archived live stream at the same link ...
Keep reading » The Columbia Journalism Review asked journalists, scholars, and critics to recommend books for the next generation of journalists. Here is an edited list of the titles they suggested. For full lists from each recommender, click here.
Keep reading » Yahoo! News took an interesting approach to telling the story of unemployment in America, using a specially-created Tumblr blog to crowdsource and publish stories. “The whole concept going into this project was to approach long-term unemployment from a fundamentally different angle than what...
Keep reading » Malcolm Gladwell says that Steve Jobs’ true brilliance was in how he applied an editor’s eye to consumer technology. “Jobs's sensibility was editorial, not inventive,” he says in an article in The New Yorker about the new Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson,...
Keep reading » TMZ founder Harvey Levin says newspapers and magazines should get out of the print business if they want to survive. "What is the magic of holding a piece of paper in the air when you read? You [in the news media] think you have to preserve this? Why?" "Young people aren't interested in the...
Keep reading » The rapid growth of tablets like the iPad is helping to increase news consumption, but so far the devices don’t appear to be the panacea for the news industry’s woes that many had hoped. While three out of every 10 tablet users consume more news daily, a majority say they are not...
Keep reading » While Americans are increasingly watching video online – and now almost half of Americans (48%) view video online — Americans still watch almost four times more timeshifted content (primarily from DVRs) per week than they do online, according to a new report from Nieslen. Timeshifted TV...
Keep reading » Wired and Fortune moved quickly to publish Steve Jobs’ ebooks following his death. What’s surprising is more publishing companies did not do so. Every magazine and newspaper company these days should be thinking like this. Even many independent publishers have whipped up quick Kindle...
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