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Mediatwits #74: Special Edition on Rise of Native, Mobile Ads
This week’s Mediatwits podcast is a special edition focused on the evolution of advertising, as a cap to our week-long special on MediaShift. Our special guests are BuzzFeed VP Jonathan Perelman and...
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Mediatwits #75: Fox Threatened by Aereo; Cass Sunstein Makes Government...
This week’s Mediatwits podcast includes a former Obama “regulatory czar,” a cornered Fox, a Tumblr of layoffs, and a ray of hope for — yes! — newspapers. Special guest Cass Sunstein was the former head...
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Mediatwits #76: Social Response to Boston Bombings; Pulitzer for...
It’s been a rough week on many fronts. At the end of the Boston Marathon, two bombs went off, killing at least three people and maiming dozens of others. The news quickly spread on social media, with...
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Mediatwits #77: Ad Deluge Coming @Twitter?; Lessons from the Boston Manhunt
There’s a lot of business to attend to on this week’s podcast. First, the business of microblogging grows up, with Twitter inking a massive ad deal with Starcom Mediavest Group worth “hundreds of...
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Mediatwits #78: Twitter Security After @AP Hack; LinkedIn for Journalists
News and social media seem like two great tastes that go together. But lately, the two have been at loggerheads. After the @AP Twitter feed was hacked, Wall Street reacted as if the news was real. And...
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Mediatwits #79: FBI Reads Emails Without Warrants; Henry Jenkins on...
Have we reached the point of a Big Brother state online? It sure seems that way with the recent revelation that the FBI and Department of Justice routinely read private emails, Facebook messages and...
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Mediatwits #80: Feds Spy on AP, Bloomberg Spies on Feds; Future for Broadcast...
Who’s snooping on whom? First came the news that Bloomberg reporters were using the company’s terminals to find out when federal officials were logging into the system. Then came the news that the...
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Mediatwits #81: Yahoo Snags Tumblr; DOJ Investigates Fox; Ben Huh Talks Cats
With Yahoo’s $1.1 billion purchase of blogging platform Tumblr, this week’s podcast will focus on the future of the two companies and how, or if, they’ll survive the transition. Will Yahoo become the...
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Mediatwits #82: NSA Snooping with Help from Tech Titans?; Sun-Times Fires...
Government snooping has been a recurring theme on our podcast, and this week the biggest revelation of all came out: The National Security Agency has had unfettered access to servers at Microsoft,...
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Mediatwits #83: WaPo’s ‘Sponsored Views’ and Pay Wall; Snowden Reveals...
Washington Post joined the 450 other daily U.S. newspapers with pay walls this week and also now offers “Sponsored Views” below its editorials. We’ll talk to Forbes media columnist Jeff Bercovici about...
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Mediatwits #84: Instagram to Launch Video; BuzzFeed Sued for Photo Use;...
Do you love photo and video sharing? Then this episode is for you. First, Facebook announced that popular photo sharing and filtering service Instagram will add video to compete with the popularity of...
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Mediatwits #85: Live Events Special: Texas Tribune on Senate Filibuster; Vox...
This week’s episode focuses on the role of live coverage in the media ecosystem. When does it work? When does it not? How do you balance speed and accuracy? How does it pull in readers? We’ll talk to...
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Mediatwits #86: Social Media vs. CNN in Breaking News; Rise of The Guardian
When news happens, where do you turn first? A recent Gallup poll says most people still turn to TV, but if you followed the recent airplane crash at SFO or the military coup in Egypt, you know the...
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Mediatwits #87: TV Special: Apple, Google Are Coming; Netflix at the Emmys;...
Like most media, the future of television is online. This edition of the Mediatwits, we’ll talk about the prospects for tech upstarts Apple, Google, Intel and Sony, who are trying to push their way...
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Mediatwits #88: Blog Franchises: Nate Silver at ESPN; Timothy Lee at...
When a blogger or journalist furthers their personal brand within a newsroom, who benefits? The New York Times’ Nate Silver is moving his FiveThirtyEight empire to ESPN, the Washington Post is...
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Mediatwits #89: Google Glass: Revolutionizing News or Public Annoyance?
Google Glass could have a transformative effect on journalism, especially as we watch Tim Pool from VICE use Google Glass to report on Turkish protests. But it’s important to examine the shortfalls as...
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Mediatwits #90: When Billionaires Buy Newspapers
It’s a scary but exciting world for newspaper owners right now, especially if they’re in a selling mood. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, bought the Washington Post last week (while our...
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Mediatwits #91: Back to J-School: Degree Needed?; MOOCs, Online Learning,...
Digital disruption has changed the landscape of the media world, and journalism and communication schools need to figure out how to educate in a time of vast change. The schools themselves need to...
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Mediatwits #92: Journalism, Free Speech Under Attack in the Surveillance State
How can journalists fight the war on journalism, both in the U.S. and abroad? As governments hunt down whistleblowers, leakers and journalists alike, many reporters are worried they now work in a world...
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Mediatwits #93: How Authors Are Becoming Entrepreneurs (Like It or Not)
Maybe you’ve always had an idea for a book but were too daunted by the traditional gatekeepers of agents and publishers. Well now you can dust off the manuscript and get read to publish, because the...
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