Cinemax Premieres Entire First Episode of New Show as Animated GIFs
TV viewers don't have to work for much. That's the whole point. But those eager to check out Cinemax's new drama Banshee before its Friday premiere—and who don't mind doing a little work—can watch the...
View Article'Vanity Fair With a Middle American Sensibility'
By James Sturdivant Buzzfeed was buzzing yesterday with a report on a party held Tuesday at Michael's in New York, honoring the winner and runners up in the 2013 Great American Fiction Contest. The...
View ArticleWhy BuzzFeed’s photo spat with Reddit could be just the tip of the iceberg
BuzzFeed’s impressive growth — capped off by a recent $15. 5-million venture-financing round — is a testament to the site’s ability to find and package “viral” content on a range of topics, from...
View ArticleWhy journalists are covering rapes differently in New Delhi & Steubenville
It’s not often that two stories about rape — one in India and one here in the U. S. — get so much attention at the same time. What’s striking about the simultaneous stories is how differently...
View ArticleThe Atlantic publishes then pulls sponsored content from Church of Scientology
About 10 hours after it was published, The Atlantic removed sponsored content from the Church of Scientology.
View ArticleThe Real Problem With The Atlantic's Sponsored Post
The collective fury of the media chattering class was in full force yesterday evening as journalists, ad folks, and casual readers alike sounded off on Twitter over a sponsored post about Scientology...
View ArticleWhat we can learn from The Atlantic‘s sponsored content debacle
Much of the buzz in the online media world over the past few months has been about “native” advertising — a term that many people use to describe what used to be called “advertorial” in the old...
View ArticleShane Snow: What the sponsored-content business can learn from Scientology
For the past decade, media critics have crooned, “What’s the business model that will save journalism?” As new publishers seem to jump into sponsored stories every week — joining the likes of Forbes,...
View Article#Podcast: Tips from Metro and NME on managing a Facebook page
It includes advice on understanding Facebook’s algorithm, examples of status updates that drive engagement, and thoughts on how you can increase referral traffic through the sharing of articles from...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Aaron Swartz’s quest for open data, and Facebook dives...
An activist’s death and the open information cause: The death of a young digital innovator and activist, Aaron Swartz, quickly led to a fruitful discussion about the main cause he stood for — free...
View Article10 Great Moments in Web Journalism Besides Deadspin's Manti Scoop
Brett Favre’s penis was certainly a big deal, so to speak. But Manti Te'o’s imaginary/made up deadgirlfriend has thrust Gawker Media's Deadspin into the spotlight like never before. As of noon Friday,...
View ArticleFirst Mover: McKay Coppins
Specs Age 25 New gig Political editor, BuzzFeed Old gig Political reporter, BuzzFeed What’s your role as BuzzFeed’s political editor? It’s to build on the momentum the politics section gained in 2012....
View ArticleFT announces buyouts in quest to be “a digital platform first, and a...
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber wrote in an email to staff Monday that the newspaper will offer staff buyouts in an attempt to save £1. 6 million as it also hires 10 new employees on the digital...
View ArticleChuck Schumer's Inaugural Photobomb
Clearly, inauguration day belonged to Chuck Schumer. H/T BuzzFeed.
View ArticleDiscover new revenue models for media at paidContent Live 2013
Our conference is called paidContent Live, but the “paid” and “content” parts of that phrase have been undergoing fundamental disruption. The maturation of digital media, new content-creation and...
View ArticleNick Denton says Gawker’s advertising future is affiliate links and “commerce...
There’s rarely any mystery about what Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has in mind for his mini media empire, if only because his internal memos are so widely leaked that his plans eventually become...
View ArticleWhy publishers should follow the Verge-HuffPost dustup
It might be hard to understand why staffers at tech site The Verge complained so loudly about a Huffington Post “linkout” that sent readers to a Verge feature. After all, isn’t the Web built on such …...
View ArticleKatie Couric on Te’o: ‘I think he was really telling the truth’
CBS New York | BuzzFeed “What am I going to do, strap a lie detector on this guy?” Katie Couric said to WFAN hosts Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton Friday, while recapping her exclusive interview with...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, January 25, 2013
1. With the addition of Vine's video sharing, is Twitter trying to be too many things to too many people? (GigaOm) 2. Google rewards content scraping by Huffington Post, ruffles feathers at The Verge...
View ArticleAs Twitter deals with porn issue on Vine: 20 brands experimenting with video ads
Over the weekend and yesterday there was much Tweeting about how porn had already reached Twitter’s Vine video app. Twitter is taking action against pornography on Vine and banning searches for...
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