February 10th, 2010
AllVoices, a news aggregation site that focuses on citizen journalism, recently received a $3 million cash infusion from VantagePoint Partners. The two-year-old startup now has total funding of $9 million.
The site was co-founded by CEO Amra Tareen, who....
February 9th, 2010
Jennifer Van Grove, an associate editor at Mashable who covers blogging and social media, recently wrote about the changing relationship between advertisers and the Super Bowl. Many advertisers have been ramping up their social media strategy rather than....
February 8th, 2010
After erecting a pay wall to its site in October, Newsday has amassed only 35 paid subscribers. Fewer than three dozen people have signed up to pay $5 a week or $260 a year for unlimited access to the site.
John Koblin at The New York Observer writes:
Of....
February 5th, 2010
Brian Allee-Walsh covers the New Orleans Saints for the news website NewOrleans.com. Allee-Walsh wrote for the local daily paper, The Times-Picayune, for over 32 years, covering the Saints for the last 23.
This past November, Allee-Walsh reported that....
February 4th, 2010
David Myers is a professor in the School of Mass Communications at New Orleans’ Loyola University. His teaching and research focus on digital media, so it’s no surprise that he recently covered the local “Who Dat” controversy coverage....
February 3rd, 2010
Chris Evans is director of the student media program at the University of Vermont where he writes a blog on journalism. He’s also written for daily newspapers in cities across four different states, so he’s learned about the media industry....
February 2nd, 2010
In an article for Masthead Online, Kat Tancock, web and communities editor at Best Health, discusses how some publishers are finding success by developing iPhone apps for their magazines. Some of the more successful ones include magazine spin-offs from....
February 1st, 2010
After months of speculation and rumors from both online and print media, Apple has officially announced its new tablet device, the iPad. The iPad is being heralded by many as the savior of the publishing industry, so it will be interesting to see what....
