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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
“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 more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »