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Politico’s Foray Into Local News – DC Media Game Changer?

October 30, 2009

Politico, Newschannel 8, and WJLA TV Parent company, Allbritton Communications, has announced that it is jumping into local media here in the Washington DC metro area. Planned for launch next spring, the yet unnamed site hopes to leverage social web technology to lure audiences who have become disenchanted with traditional media. They also hope replicate [...]

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Local TV Transforms – Towers and Transmitters Meet the Social Web

December 11, 2007

NBC’s Local Media Initiative In a move that acknowledges the diminishing influence of one-way communication channels, NBC has renamed the Television Stations Division “Local Media Division”. There was a great deal of coverage in industry blogs. Media Week and Lost Remote have both framed the change as a fundamental shift in business. NBC Local Media [...]

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Amani Channel Goes Mainstream…AJC Style.

April 10, 2007

Nothing more meta than when media cover the media. If only I’d been there with my camera to get the media, covering the media, covering well..you guessed it..THE MEDIA!! I’ve been down this road before but I

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“Tripod vs. No Tripod” and other “rules” of Video to Ignore

April 9, 2007

Media gadfly Michael Rosenblum has some curious thoughts on the use of tripods in producing “newspaper video”. Apparently there is a Yahoo group devoted very specifically to “newspaper video”. A discussion/self-help/twelve-step group for recovering newspaper photojournalists working with video. This is aimed toward newspaper staff shooters who are expanding their repertoire to include multimedia. Video, [...]

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Journalist’s and Self Promotion

April 6, 2007

I’ve been working in TV news in DC for more years than I care to recall, and I’ve never found TV reporters lacking in the self-promotion department. But for some interesting thoughts on a shift in promotional responsiblity to journalists themselves, Beet TV’s Andy Plesser goes to the washingtonpost.com well once again, with the site’s [...]

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