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Morning Media Newsfeed: Cuts Hit CNN, HLN | Nielsen Revision Puts Nightly...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Layoffs Begin at CNN (TVNewser) Layoffs have begun at CNN. As many as 300, or 8 percent, of CNN’s workforce is being cut in...
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CNN Vet Alan Duke Jumps to Radar Online
For the past five and a half years, for all but one month, Alan Duke‘s byline has been the number one desktop-views attraction at CNN Digital. During that one month in question, Duke went on vacation...
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No One Trusts BuzzFeed
Another interesting tidbit from that massive Pew Research Center study we mentioned this morning is that no one seems to trust BuzzFeeed [insert LOL and/or here]. The site was the only media outlet...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Ben Bradlee Dies at 93 | Pew Finds Partisan News...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Former Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee Dies at 93 (FishbowlDC) Former editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee died Tuesday of...
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BuzzFeed: We Don’t Do Clickbait
BuzzFeed has become popular via incoherent articles, vapid lists and heaps and heaps of cat gifs. It is the very definition of clickbait. The site’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, doesn’t see it that...
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Tessa Gould Joins BuzzFeed
Tessa Gould is joining BuzzFeed as its vice president of ad innovation and monetization. Gould comes to the site from The Huffington Post, where she served as director of native ad product. She also...
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Michael Wolff Questions Ben Smith’s Uber Expose
Caught in the middle of Uber and BuzzFeed, Michael Wolff has opted to make the headline-grabbing story – and himself – the subject of today’s USA Today column. Wolff writes that after hearing directly...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: 16 Million Watch Ferguson Grand Jury | Orman to Leave...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. 16 Million Tune in to Cable News for Ferguson Grand Jury Announcement (TVNewser) The news surrounding the grand jury’s decision in...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: World News to Cast on Facebook | Veteran Staff Take...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. ABC World News Tonight Launches Facebook Newscast (TVNewser) ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir will host a social media...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Snyderman Apologizes on Air | Elliott Takes NYT Buyout
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Dr. Nancy Snyderman Apologizes: ‘Good People Can Make Mistakes’ (TVNewser) Dr. Nancy Snyderman returned to NBC News Wednesday...
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The Fraction of BuzzFeed Traffic That Comes from Google News
In the Client Testimonials section for Boise, Idaho-based “enterprise SEO and consulting services” firm Define Media Group, there are flattering words from Business Insider, Hearst Digital Media and...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Winkler Out at Bloomberg | Ebola Fighters Are Time PoTY
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Matt Winkler Steps Down at Bloomberg News (FishbowlNY) More changes at Bloomberg News, this time involving veteran editor-in-chief...
View ArticleBuzzFeed, The Week Make Changes to Business Teams
BuzzFeed and The Week have made some changes to their business teams. Details below. BuzzFeed has named Tom Gara business editor. Gara was previously the site’s deputy business editor. He came to...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Google News Axed in Spain | Sony Execs Apologize for...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Google News to Shut Down in Spain Over ‘Google Tax’ (Mashable) Google said Thursday it will shut down its Google News service in...
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Maureen Dowd Dismisses BuzzFeed Insinuation
Our first reaction last night to Matthew Zeitlin‘s BuzzFeed item about some more of those Sony hack emails, in this case a brief March 2014 correspondence between studio co-chairman Amy Pascal...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Sony Pulls The Interview | 21st Century Fox Acquires...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. 9/11 Threats From Sony Hackers Cause Company to Drop The Interview (FishbowlNY) In light of the recent threats of violence from...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: White House Talks Sony Attack | Abrams to Leave...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. White House Approaching Sony Hack as ‘National Security Issue’ (THR) During a press briefing in Washington, D.C. on Thursday,...
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Joshua Hersh Named Michael Hastings Reporting Fellow
BuzzFeed News has named Joshua Hersh the latest Michael Hastings National Reporting Fellow. The award is a year-long appointment named in honor of Hastings, who was killed in a car accident in 2013....
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Morning Media Newsfeed: 12 Dead in Shooting at Charlie Hebdo Office | Verizon...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. At Least 12 Killed in Shooting at Office of French Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo (CNN) At least 12 people were killed in...
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