New York Times: Alaska to Release Sarah Palin’s E-Mails
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:07
"The news media have descended here en masse to sift through the trove, with many organizations sending teams of reporters and database specialists to comb the documents and post them online. … some news organizations are setting up elaborate sy…
Mashable: Hyperlocal News Source EveryBlock Relaunches As Community Site
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 17:23
"EveryBlock, a hyperlocal news site acquired by msnbc.com in August 2009, unveiled a new version Monday designed to encourage conversation and collaboration among neighbors."
msnbc.com: Msnbc.com acquires ‘Breakingnews.com’
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 17:41
"The digital network that includes msnbc.com on Tuesday announced the acquisition of the BreakingNews.com Web address, with the aim of creating a Web site to complement its @BreakingNews alert service on Twitter."
MediaWeek: Web Publishers Divided Over Value of Charging
Monday, 14 September 2009, 12:47
Erm, it's not just the BBC that won't be charging for content you know: "Besides Yahoo, neither MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com, nor CNET are likely to implement any paid structure. CNN.com has made no moves in this direction. Even ESPN.com, which has long maintained a small paid subscription service with its ESPN Insider product, isn’t likely to change its online approach."
Crain’s Chicago Business: EveryBlock’s Holovaty: MSNBC.com ‘gets it’
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 22:35
Adrian Holovaty: "MSNBC.com is a good cultural fit for us, because it has a history of bold experimentation in online journalism, design and user experience. I've been pretty impressed with basic (but important) things like their site design over the years, plus database projects such as their national bridge inspections database. You can tell these aren't the woe-is-me news execs whose answer to the future of news is to put a paywall around their content. These guys get it."
New York Times: Bits Blog: MSNBC.com Acquires Everyblock, a Hyperlocal News Start-up
Monday, 17 August 2009, 22:06
"Charlie Tillinghast, president of MSNBC.com … said MSNBC.com would consider “sharing” Everyblock data with other news sites, particularly troubled newspapers. “We do not see it in our interest at all for local newspapers to be weakened. 'It’s a very difficult vacuum to fill without them,' he said."
Holovaty.com: EveryBlock acquisition and me
Monday, 17 August 2009, 22:04
Adrian Holovaty: "EveryBlock, the project I've led for the last two years, has been acquired by MSNBC.com. … this has no effect on the EveryBlock open-source code (ebcode). The code as released on June 30 will continue to be available."
Mike Davidson: Msnbc.com Acquires EveryBlock… Welcome Brother!
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:57
Newsvine's Mike Davidson: "Although building technologies and services for msnbc.com has slowed our development efforts on newsvine.com a bit, for the time being, Newsvine now serves over 4 million uniques a month; almost four times the traffic we did, pre-acquisition. We’re also distributing more revenue to our great community of writers than ever before."
The EveryBlock Blog: MSNBC.com acquires EveryBlock
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:53
"MSNBC.com has hired our whole team, and they've made it clear to us that we'll be driving the site's strategy and implementation, and that our site will remain an independent destination as a community service. … Second, it means that we'll have resources to expand EveryBlock profoundly. MSNBC.com is the most-visited news Web site in the U.S. and is in solid financial shape in a time when news organizations around the world are struggling."
Reflections of a Newsosaur: How did newspapers lose Everyblock?
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:46
Alan Mutter: "The fact that the leading hyperlocal website was snatched up by a multimedia partnership operated by NBC and Microsoft shows a dismaying lack of imagination, foresight and, perhaps, economic resources on the part of the companies operating the nation’s struggling newspapers."
O’Reilly Radar: Data Is Journalism: MSNBC Acquires Everyblock
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:44
"Everyblock, Adrian Holovaty's local data aggregator, has been acquired by MSNBC. … The future of news is data and Everyblock is the premier startup in this area. … Everyblock has proven that by taking free local government data sources and making them readily available to interested citizens you can create value."
Techcrunch: MSNBC Picks Up Hyperlocal News Aggregator EveryBlock
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:41
"The price was not disclosed, but like the Patch acquisition [by AOL], it is not an audience acquisition. Rather it is a hyperlocal platform play which MSNBC can now plug into its site and push in a major way."
Monday, 17 December 2007, 16:21
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"The title of most-visited online news site continues to be a hotly contested, with CNN, Yahoo News and MSNBC all vying for the throne."
Friday, 14 December 2007, 08:09
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BBC News Interactive’s launch editor Mike Smartt explains the process of getting the site running 10 years ago. And has a mockup of an "MSBBC" logo that might have been following talks with Microsoft.
