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Talking Points Memo's Andrew Golis To Head Up New Political Plog For Yahoo
Left-leaning political blog Talking Points Memo TPM is losing its deputy publisher, Andrew Golis. Golis is headed over to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), where he’ll head up the company’s news and blog aggregation efforts as editor of a soon-to-launch political blog. To be clear, a Yahoo rep said the company...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Talking Points Memo, Golis, Blogging, Internet, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Online News, Political Content, Companies, Yahoo, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-10-23
Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller Raises $1.5 Million
The Daily Caller, the political news site being set up by pundit Tucker Carlson, has raised $1.5 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. Carlson told us earlier this year that the site was scheduled to launch in June, although it still hasn’t gone live....
Tags: Site, Leadership, Management, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Political Content, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-11-02
How Bloomberg Did As A Digital Campaigner
If you have a war chest of $16 billion to throw at TV and print advertising, you don’t need to mess around with piddly little banner ads, right? Well, while Mayor Bloomberg did indeed blitz New Yorkers with print mailers and TV ads, he didn’t exactly ignore the digital...
Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Political Content, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-11-04
Verizon Comes Clean About Employees Who Accessed Obama's Cell Phone Account
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) issued a statement today that acknowledged some of its employees accessed the personal cell phone account of President-Elect Barack Obama. President and CEO Lowell McAdam stated: "This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have, without authorization, accessed and viewed President-Elect Barack...
Tags: Employee, Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Companies, Operators, Verizon, Media & Publishing, Political Content, Tricia Duryee
External links 2008-11-21
Estonia Is The First To Allow Citizens To Vote By SMS
The Estonian Parliament will allow citizens to vote by SMS in the 2011 election, putting it on course to make it the first country to allow voting by mobile phone, AP reports. Lawmakers approved the measure last week, which will work by requiring citizens to obtain a free authorized...
Tags: Sweden, Mobile, Finland, Ballot, SMS, Estonia, Internet, E-voting, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Telephony, Government, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Networking, Countries, Europe, Media & Publishing, Political Content, Technologies, Tricia Duryee
External links 2008-12-15
Public Opinion Firm Rasmussen Reports Gets 'Major Growth Capital Investment'
Polling firm Rasmussen Reports has received a "major growth capital investment" from media private equity firm Noson Lawen Partners. The company said it would use the funds to expand its collection of public opinion data in the U.S., which already includes daily tracking of consumer and investor confidence as...
Tags: U.S., Investment, Capital Investment, Rasmussen, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Media & Publishing, Political Content, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-10

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NBC News/msnbc.com and The New York Times/NYTimes.com Announce Collaboration on Political Coverage and National Political Content for the 2008 Campaign
NEW YORK -- The New York Times and NBC News/msnbc.com announced today that they will collaborate on coverage of the 2008 presidential election, drawing on both news organizations' strengths in political journalism. Effective today, the two entities will work together to showcase each other's journalism on their web sites, in...
Tags: NBC Universal Inc., collaboration
Research articles 2007-07-30
Only One-Third of Adults Who Have Watched an Online Video Have Watched a Political Video Online
If More Political Content was Available, Not Many More People Would Watch It ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- With more and more people viewing videos online (see Harris Poll #128, Appetites for a Wider Selection of TV Episodes and Movies Online Grows), the political world is definitely paying attention to see...
Tags: Harris Interactive, MARKETING, video
Research articles 2007-12-27
Spleak: Content + Utility = Sweet Spot
As long as there has been a world wide web to use as a media platform, those of us working with it have carried on a vigorous debate that might be called the "content vs. utility" question. Reasonable people can disagree on the question, and frequently do, staking out extreme...
Tags: Utility, Hearst Corp., Spleak, Games, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, David Weir
Blog posts 2008-07-22
NBC feels heat over content ratings. (NBC Inc.)
WASHINGTON - NBC Inc. last week came under intense political pressure here for refusing to launch content-based program warnings with the rest of the TV industry, including cable, on Oct. 1. But NBC president and CEO Robert Wright refused to buckl WASHINGTON -...
Tags: NBC Universal Inc., John McCain, TV
Research articles 1997-10-06
Comcast adds Disney: MSO inks deal for kids, ABC news broadband content.
On the eve of the political conventions, Comcast Corp. has signed a major broadband content distribution deal with ABC Inc. for ABC News product, as well as a deal with The Walt Disney Co. to launch Disney Connection on a new Kids Channel on Comcas ...
Tags: ABC Inc., broadband, Comcast Corp., Disney Corp.
Research articles 2004-07-26
Mixi IP Fight: Who Owns Social Media Content?
Over the past week, a battle has been raging inside Mixi, Japan's giant social networking site SNS, over who controls the intellectual property rights of its user-generated content. Mixi has over 13 million users who post on everything from shopping tips and relationship advice to political discussions...
Tags: IP, Mixi, Social Networking, Intellectual Property, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Research & Development, Business Operations, David Weir, Social Media
Blog posts 2008-03-12
AOL Launches Online In-Depth Political News Site PoliticsDaily
TechCrunch submits: By Leena Rao AOL is adding a twist to old-fashioned political journalism with the launch of its new political news and blog site, PoliticsDaily.com. The site, which will primarily focus on in-depth political commentary as opposed to breaking news, will only provide original...
Tags: Internet, TechCrunch, Time Warner Inc.
External links 2009-04-27
China cracks down on 'vulgar' internet content
China's government has accused the country's leading internet search engines and web portals, including Google, of threatening public morals by carrying pornographic and vulgar content. While Beijing regularly launches web censorship campaigns, the new crackdown is the first in which the government has targeted heavyweight companies such as Google and...
News items 2009-08-07
HuffPost Takes Over Top Political Blog Spot
The excitement surrounding this year's election his driving unprecedented growth to the leading political blogs. ComScore says that year over year growth for September was exponential for the likes of the Huffington Post, Politico, RealClearPolitics, DailyKos, Talking Points Memo, and Newsbusters. In recent months, major news organziations...
Tags: Blog, ComScore Networks Inc., HuffPost, Blogging, Internet, David Weir
Blog posts 2008-10-23
Bahrain groups slam new political association law
MANAMA AFP — The main political associations of Bahrain criticised as "unconstitutional" a new law for political groupings which they say restricts funding and increases the minimum-age required for membership. "The parliament has surprised us with... a law that copied the laws of the pre-political reform dark age. It...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bahrain
Research articles 2005-07-14
FCC Lays Out Potential New Rules For The Open Internet; No Discrimination And Transparency Are Key
As expected, the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out the agency’s plans this morning for new rules that will prevent telecom companies from discriminating what kind of traffic or applications run over wired or wireless networks. In a lengthy speech at The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization...
Tags: FCC, Network, Apple Inc., Wireless, Internet, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Legal, Regulatory, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, AT&T, Comcast, Google, Tricia Duryee
External links 2009-09-21
More Top Brands Join Mobileplay's Ad-supported Mobile Content Network; Mobile Pioneer to Bring Free Content from washingtonpost.com, newsweek.com, slate.com, AccuWeather.com, The Onion, Fodor's and U.S.News & World Report to Mobile Phones
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mobile content delivery pioneer Mobileplay, a free service that brings ad-supported news, games and lifestyle content to wireless users, today announced several new partnerships with popular news, lifestyle and entertainment sources. Mobileplay's wireless users will now have convenient access to hotel and restaurant reviews from Fodor's, social...
Tags: cell phone, mobile, phone, Washington Post Co.
Research articles 2006-08-16
Interview: Allbritton's Jim Brady: What Politico Did For Political News, We Can Do For Local
In jumping right from a consulting gig where he helped chart Guardian America’s web strategy to now creating a local Washington DC news site for the company that owns Politico, Jim Brady has a clear sense of what he wants his new venture to be: replicable, something that was...
Tags: Web, Jim Brady, Web Site, Politico, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing, Internet, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, News Sharing, David Kaplan
External links 2009-10-29
Australia's ISP Filtering Pilot Could Affect P2Ps
Australia's broadband ministry on Monday defended the country's upcoming Internet filtering pilot, and acknowledged that the plan could include P2P traffic like BitTorrent. "It is understood that technology exists to filter peer-to-peer networks," according to an FAQ posted online. "If such technology is proposed as part of the pilot by...
News items 2009-08-07
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