Dow Jones CEO talks Wall Street Journal
The financial and economic meltdown helped the Wall Street Journal become the nation’s largest weekday paper, Les Hinton, chief executive of Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., said in San Francisco on Tuesday. Kathleen Pender of the San Francisco Chronicle writes, “With moderator Quentin Hardy of Forbes, Hinton discussed the Journal’s tablet app, social media, […]
Fortune magazine starts web app
Fortune magazine has built a new application to run inside web browsers on a variety of platforms, reports Nat Ives of Advertising Age. Ives writes, “As a web app, Fortune500+ joins what seems to be a slowly rising tide of apps that run in web browsers instead of the operating systems of particular devices. Magazines, […]
Reuters launches live video service
Reuters announced Wednesday that it is launching an online service offering live video access to breaking and scheduled news events to outside publishers, reports David Kaplan of PaidContent.org. Kaplan writes, “The service, dubbed Live Stream, has been tested with launch partners The Tribune Company and Australia’s Fairfax Media. It got its big debut last week […]
Richmond biz news site partners with Fredericksburg paper
Aaron Kremer, the editor and founder of RichmondBizSense.com, writes about the business news website’s new partnership with the daily newspaper in Fredericksburg, which is north of Richmond and is now putting out a daily business news e-mail. Kremer writes, “The partnership is a loose one, but BizSense advertisers who want to reach a similar demographic […]
New Bloomberg Businessweek app gets personal with users
T.J. Raphael of Folio writes about how the new Bloomberg Businessweek application allows readers to go behind the scenes of the stories in the business magazine. Raphael writes, “App users can see behind the scenes videos about the cover story and its artwork every week from editor Josh Tyrangiel and creative director Richard Turley. Individuals […]
Bloomberg urges journalists use caution with Twitter
Ellie Behling of eMedia Vitals obtained a copy of Bloomberg News‘ new policy for using Twitter and other social media and reports on what it allows, and doesn’t allow. Behling writes, “Bloomberg’s policy forbids journalists to use social networks to express political opinions, to advocate on behalf of a particular issue or agenda, or to […]
ACBJ papers rolling out smart phone apps
The weekly business newspapers published by Charlotte-based American City Business Journals have been rolled out applications for iPhone and Android users, with apps for Blackberries and iPads to follow. A story on the Phoenix Business Journal site states, “The new smartphone application includes additional article category headers at the top of the home page, so […]
Wired issue downloads settle into 20k to 30k range
Peter Kafka of All Things Digital writes that the monthly downloads of issues of Wired magazine on the iPad has declined to 20,000 to 30,000, from its initial 100,000 downloads of the first issue. Kafka writes, “So. Twelve issues in, how’s the app performing on the business side? Conde won’t share many details, Wired publisher […]
CNBC.com launches new video player
David Kaplan of PaidContent.org writes Wednesday about CNBC.com‘s new online video player. Kaplan writes, “The problem these days though, is that there’s a surfeit of video to watch on CNBC.com. So the updated player is meant to make watching it a more manageable, less time consuming experience. Viewers can now search and scroll through a […]
Assessing the Bloomberg Businessweek app
Dan Frommer of The Business Insider critiques the new Bloomberg Businessweek application for the iPad. Frommer writes, “So far, we haven’t been able to locate the area in the app to terminate your iTunes-based subscription; we’ve reached out for help on that, and will update when we hear back. “One big challenge for apps like […]
