Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fox Business Network web site to have "community" features

Todd Spangler of Multichannel News writes Wednesday that the forthcoming Fox Business Network web site will have “community” features and emphasize videos.

Spangler wrote, “Other planned enhancements include community features that will let users rate and recommend videos, and let them embed Fox News Channel video clips on their blogs. The community features will be introduced first on FoxBusiness.com, the online companion to FBN, which is set to launch Oct. 15.

“‘Itâ€™s a YouTube model: They can take the code and embed it into their site,’ Misenti said.

“He added that Fox News Digital has the ability to monitor the usage of clips and can revoke an individualâ€™s ability to embed video. ‘Thereâ€™s a percentage [of Internet users] who will do something inappropriate,’ he said.

“According to Nielsen/NetRatings, FoxNews.com gets just under 9 million unique visitors per month.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.