Bloomberg passes Yahoo in video streams
Bloomberg beat Yahoo Finance in December in video streams for the first time ever, according to comScore Video Metrix. Bloomberg had 34.7 million streams in December, a four fold increase year-over-year and a 31 percent increase month-over-month. Bloomberg.com unique visitors increased nearly 25 percent year-over-year in December, with 40 percent of the site’s audience watching […]
Financial Times launches Samsung Smart TV app
Financial Times videos are now available via an application to televisions viewers who have a Samsung Smart TV. The app shows the latest FT video, including analysis and coverage of stories and issues in politics, business and finance. It also broadcasts culture and lifestyle features and a text scroller of the latest FT news headlines. […]
Forbes launches social media “stream”
Forbes on Monday unveiled “Stream,” a feature that allows readers to save, share and discover visual content from the magazine and Forbes.com, reports Gavin O’Malley of Media Daily News. O’Malley writes, “Lewis DVorkin, Forbes Media chief product officer, said Stream is a response to two key trends that continue to redefine media: a shift toward […]
WSJ editor Baker: Digital transformation coming in 2014
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following message to the staff about changes in store in 2014: As we prepare to ring in the New Year, I wanted to offer my warmest appreciation for all your work in 2013 and to signal our principal objectives for 2014. It has been a […]
Reuters journalists double Twitter usage
Journalists at Reuters more than doubled their usage of Twitter in 2013, according to data from Muck Rake. Gregory Galant, the CEO of Muck Rack, notes that 238 Reuters journalists were using Twitter in 2012. That number increased to 496 in 2013. In addition, CNBC anchor Melissa Lee was the journalist who started a Twitter […]
Business news as an email newsletter
Frederic Filloux of MondayNote.com examines how some business news organizations are sending the latest news to your inbox. Filloux writes, “Again, I’ll refer to Quartz, the business site launched a year ago by the Atlantic Media Group (see a previous Monday Note series here). Their email newsletter is called ‘The Daily Brief’; it is 800-words […]
Social media at The Wall Street Journal
Caroline O’Donovan of The Nieman Journalism Lab spoke with Sarah Marshall, who is becoming the first social media editor for The Wall Street Journal for news coming out of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Here is an excerpt: O’Donovan: So what kind of stuff are you going to be doing? Do you have a […]
CNBC launches new apps
CNBC announced Monday the launch of the new CNBC application for Apple products. What’s new is the ability to watch live CNBC programming on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on an authenticated basis to subscribers of participating multichannel video programming distributors such as cable, satellite and telephone companies. The app features live streaming of […]
WSJ mobile usage is up 59 percent from a year ago
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York writes about some details that emerged Monday from the News Corp. earnings conference call about The Wall Street Journal. Pompeo writes, “At The Wall Street Journal, News Corp’s tony U.S. broadsheet, mobile usage was up 59 percent this September compared to the same month in 2012, Thomson said. “Chief […]
Using Twitter to write a business magazine story
Steve Baker, a former business journalist at BusinessWeek, writes for The Huffington Post about how he used Twitter to write a story for the magazine and how he doesn’t use Twitter any more. Baker writes, “But then I came up with a plan to leverage my mainstream journalism asset. I would write a BusinessWeek article […]
