Rupert Murdoch may remember this week: five top UK staffers arrested for bribery. Pew found even legacy media struggles to entice advertisers online. Media deaths: Whitney Houston and Anthony Shadid.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on February 22, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
GigaOm added paidContent to its tech publishing empire this week. San Diego U-T talks about starting a TV network. And Superbowl XLVI claims "most streamed online sports event ever." So far.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on February 15, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
Huge public reaction reversed the Komen foundation decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood. FB formally announced IPO plans, and the White House hosted its first Google+ hangout this week.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on February 8, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
TV viewing of the State of the Union dropped compared to last year, but comments on social media came faster than ever. Also this week: the U.S. rank in press freedoms dropped over Occupy.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on February 1, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
This week: Changing the GOP game again, Newt Gingrich wins the South Carolina primary. New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson announced "small, across-the-board" layoffs. And Wikipedia, Reddit and many others blacked out their sites for a day, winning at least a delay to SOPA legislation in Congress.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on January 25, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
This week Wikip, Craigslist and others black out text and pages, concerned over SOPA legislation; the NYT overhauls iconic Week In Review; and Rick Perry quits the presidential race.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on January 20, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
The presidential race got going with a record: GOP nominee Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum by eight votes in the Iowa caucuses. 2012 predictions continue; one sees local businesses in a big shift to ads in social media.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on January 11, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
The NYT Co. sells off its regional papers, plus reviews and predictions on media kept coming the last week of the year. Newspaper job cuts reportedly rose 30% in 2011. Record campaign ad spending forecast 2012.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 31, 2011
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
This week the world watched the last US troops leave Iraq, saw a Saudi prince reveal a $300M investment in Twitter, and got a new FCC push to loosen cross-media ownership rules.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 24, 2011
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Resources, Tweets for Keeps
Big digital news this week: Patch merged several sites, and BuzzFeed began creating content, not just aggregating viral stories. Lots of tools and talk around improving citizen protest media.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 16, 2011
Topic: Tweets for Keeps Tags: Tweets for Keeps
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