Archive for category: MSM

Guardian Launches US Homepage

Guardian Launches US Homepage

UK newspaper The Guardian has joined the ongoing push by the UK press for American page views with the launch of a new US specific site: guardiannews.com. The Guardian’s US Editor in Chief Janine Gibson said that the new page was […]

Wall Street Journal Expands Digital Network With ‘WSJ Live’ App

Wall Street Journal Expands Digital Network With ‘WSJ Live’ App

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday announced the launch of ‘WSJ Live’ a new offering that brings an increased amount of daily streaming news to the network. The application allows WSJ users to access free video-based content via their iPad, […]

Amazon, Hearst Ink Content and E-Commerce Deal Ahead of Kindle Tablet Launch

Amazon, Hearst Ink Content and E-Commerce Deal Ahead of Kindle Tablet Launch

Massive online retailer Amazon and publisher Hearst are getting hot and heavy with a wide-ranging expansion of their business relationship, announced in a press release today. The “multi-faceted consumer marketing, e-commerce and content relationship” has implications for both of the […]

“What’s Trending” Host Lazar Comments on Jobs Death Tweet Mistake

“What’s Trending” Host Lazar Comments on Jobs Death Tweet Mistake

The uber-fast, trends-based news cycle has claimed another victim- to a degree- as an online web show’s partnership with major network CBS was severed after the property was a bit too quick to jump on a bit of spurious news […]

Flipboard CEO Says New Media and Other Sites Will Eventually Look More like Print

Flipboard CEO Says New Media and Other Sites Will Eventually Look More like Print

With all this talk that old media is dying and new media is taking over Flipboard CEO Mike McCue chimed in this week, telling visitors at the TechCrunch Distrupt conference that he believes new media and much more of the […]

Financial Times Launches Luxury Lifestyle App ‘How to Spend It’ For iPad

Financial Times Launches Luxury Lifestyle App ‘How to Spend It’ For iPad

Although the Financial Times pulled its core broadsheet app from Apple’s iTunes store last month amid concerns about user data and Apple’s generous 30% cut from sales of the app, it has bounced back with a more targeted iPad strategy this week. […]

Glenn Beck Embraces New Media To The Tune Of $100 Million

Glenn Beck Embraces New Media To The Tune Of $100 Million

When Glenn Beck was working for Fox News he pulled in $2.5 million annually, not a bad sum of cash for basically acting like an uneducated nitwit, yet it turns out he was being vastly underpaid. Utilizing his new GBTV […]

Robin Hicks Takes Over As Editor Of Mumbrella

Robin Hicks Takes Over As Editor Of Mumbrella

Australian marketing and media blog Mumbrella has appointed Robin Hicks as its new Editor. Hicks takes over from founder Tim Burrowes, who has moved to the new role of Editor-in-Chief of parent company Focal Attractions. The company publishes screen industry […]

BostonGlobe.com Puts Up The Paywall

BostonGlobe.com Puts Up The Paywall

The Boston Globe has followed others, including its parent The New York Times, in putting the majority of its content behind a paywall. Access to the site is free to all print subscribers, with a digital-only subscription being offered for […]

TPM Suffers DDoS Attack Following Publication of Anonymous Mugshots

TPM Suffers DDoS Attack Following Publication of Anonymous Mugshots

Political site Talking Points Memo (TPM) was offline for a significant portion of Friday evening (9 September) following a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against it. The attack followed the publication of mugshots of people identified by authorities […]

New York Times Launches India Specific Website

New York Times Launches India Specific Website

The New York Times has launched its first country specific website, India Ink, offering news and analysis about Indian politics, culture, business, sports and lifestyle. The site, located at nytimes.com/indiaink, is edited by New York Times staff in India and […]

News Corp To Establish New Online Sports & Celeb Site In UK

News Corp To Establish New Online Sports & Celeb Site In UK

News Corp division News International is developing a new online publication targeting sports and celebrity gossip, following its closure of the scandal ridden News of the World. According to a report at the Guardian, 21 jobs have been advertised inside […]

Cry Me A River TechCrunch

Cry Me A River TechCrunch

As the Arrington/ AOL/ CrunchFund scandal enters yet another day, TechCrunch writer MG Siegler and founder Michael Arrington have started using their yet to be revoked access to the site to fire shots across the bow of parent company AOL […]

Steven Hodson Joins Medacity As Opinion Columnist

Steven Hodson Joins Medacity As Opinion Columnist

Medacity (a publication of Nichenet Pty Ltd) is proud to announce that tech opinion writer Steven Hodson has joined the team as its first dedicated opinion writer. Hodson, who previously worked for Nichenet is a similar role at The Inquisitr, […]