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 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 President shortly. 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 their attacks as they happen? The Israeli army has started doing just that. Read more at GigaOM »
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 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 and a recent defamation lawsuit against Gawker Media help reinforce the value of the hyperlink. Read more at GigaOM »
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 more »
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 more at GigaOM »
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 more »
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 more »
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 more »
As rumored a week ago, CNN has purchased Zite, the makers of a personalized iPad magazine application that aggregated content around user pr… Read more »
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… Read more »
More and more companies are starting to think of the mobile screen as an adjunct to the big screen, but only as long as you are still paying… Read more »
As the number of apps, and the amount of investment in apps, both continue to grow, startups that focus on optimizing how they are created a… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is paring down its operations big-time in the lead-up to using Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS for its new portfolio of smart… Read more »
CNN has created a new post of VP and GM of CNN International Digital, to which it is appointing MSN’s international programming director Pet… Read more »
The launches are still months away but CNN Digital has a pair of announcements from SXSW tonight that mark significant advancements for the… Read more »
CNN, the Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner-owned TV news network, today launched its first iPad app, joining the ranks of other TV news organisations… Read more »
Last month, we asked if the iPad was a mobile device. And, trust us, it’s not as straightforward as you might think. After all, what makes a… Read more »
After preparing for some time to rely only on its own resources, CNN will not use any photos, videos or newswire reports from the AP, as the… Read more »
Two weeks ago, CNN International was reprimanded by Ofcom because its CNN YouTube Debate on Climate Change programme broke rules barring spo… Read more »
It’s the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit now, but the two-day conference is still at the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Building. CNN President… Read more »
The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business– so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob G… Read more »
I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Kat… Read more »
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While *Dow Jones* follows through with plans to convert some of its iPhone and BlackBerry free app users to paid subscribers, CNN is jumping… Read more »
If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched… Read more »
Updated: The Michael Jackson memorial service has come and gone, and some of the preliminary stats on online viewing, streaming and social m… Read more »
Facebook introduced two features Wednesday that should better position the social networking site as a source of real-time information on th… Read more »
Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and CNN have surveyed CNN’s online audience and found that of those people with mobile internet 56 percent access onli… Read more »
