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By Analisa Tamayo Keef, Product Manager, and Lior Ben-Kereth, Engineering Manager Video has become an important part of the Facebook experience for people around the world, due in large part to the amazing creativity we’re seeing from all kinds of video publishers. To provide the best experience for everyone who watches, creates and shares videos…
Billy Penn has a new lead developer and a manager for events and sales, bringing our full-time headcount to 11 after filling these crucial roles on the business and product side. Russell Heimlich, who spent time at the Pew Research Center and The Wirecutter, is Billy Penn’s new lead developer. At Pew, Russell consolidated the…
paging_filter Spirited Media, which owns and operates the Philadelphia-based local news site Billy Penn, is eyeing Baltimore, Chicago or Pittsburgh as the company’s next news outpost, POLITICO has learned. In an interview with POLITICO conducted before the final cities were selected, Spirited Media founder and CEO Jim Brady said he was looking to launch a…
Video is sexy. Video is lucrative. Video works on both the big screen and the smallest mobile screen. Video is also very hard to do, extremely hard to scale and highly unlikely to be much of a lifeline for VC-addled publishers desperate for growth areas. Mashable, which laid off 30 staffers last week, is the…
AP Radio News:Your browser does not support the audio element. Source: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL STOP SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS
Some time ago, I was invited to sit on a journalism panel and speak to Temple University grad students in journalism about the changes in the profession. The discussion focused on 1) the demise of newspapers, 2) online vs. traditional journalism and the most important question of all: Is a career in journalism worth it?…
paging_filter Online publishing start-up Slant News is shutting down, sources confirmed to POLITICO Media. The publishing platform, founded in February last year, paid freelance writers 70 percent of the advertising revenue generated by the articles that they wrote for the site. Slant was co-founded by Amanda Gutterman, the former special projects editor for The Huffington…
As promised, Gawker Media filed its appeal against the Hulk Hogan verdict Monday afternoon. Its lawyers are asking for a new trial or the jury’s decision to award Hogan (or Terry Bollea, depending on which personality he is presenting at the time — more on that later!) $140.1 million to be significantly reduced, or for a judge…
Photo Gay Talese, whose comments on female writers at a conference in Boston put him in an unfamiliar forum — on Twitter. Credit Robin Marchant/Getty Images On Friday, April 1, the 84-year-old writer Gay Talese made his way from New York to Boston, where he was scheduled to speak at Boston University’s “Power of Narrative”…
NYT executive editor Dean Baquet responds to “Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer“: “We published a story yesterday about controversial remarks made by the writer Gay Talese concerning female journalists at a conference at Boston University. The story also recounted an exchange between Talese and Nikole Hannah-Jones, a keynote speaker at the conference and…