MediaWeek: Web Publishers Divided Over Value of Charging

Posted on 14 September, 2009 by Martin Stabe

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."

TechCrunch: Why CBS Bought CNET, And Not The Other Way Around

Posted on 16 May, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Michael Arrington: "CNET failed to disrupt the old guard, and will find itself to be a footnote in Internet history rather than the headline it should have been."

Online Media Daily: Election Prompts Melding Of Old And New Media

Posted on 14 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"The most recent--and seemingly unlikely--election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, ... Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."

Regret the Error: CBS Public Eye: An obituary

Posted on 3 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"No sustainable business model" for CBS transparency blog.

Bloggers Blog: CBS Pays $10 Million for Dotspotter

Posted on 11 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"PaidContent reports that CBS has bought a relatively unknown celebrity blog called Dotspotter for about $10 million. That's right. $10 million! For Dotspotter!"

New York Times: CBSNews.com Chief to Lead a News and Blogs Site

Posted on 2 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"The Huffington Post ... plans to announce today the appointment of a new chief executive, Betsy Morgan, who will leave her job as the general manager of CBSNews.com."

BBC News: The Editors: Confessions of a BBC rookie

Posted on 24 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Rome Hartman: "The BBC has a different word or phrase than American networks use to describe almost every function of television production, and it may yet drive me crazy."

New York Times: Big Radio Makes a Grab for Internet Listeners

Posted on 14 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"After ceding ground for years to an army of autonomous Internet radio stations, some of which are run from basements and spare bedrooms, the nation’s biggest broadcasters are now marching online"

Regret the Error: NY Sun names fired CBS producer; why naming her is important

Posted on 13 April, 2007 by Martin Stabe

David Blum of the New York Sun has named the producer fired in the CBS plagiarism incident. Craig Silverman explains why journalists insist on naming names in cases of plagiarism. (Ahem: "Even student newspapers do it.")

New York Times: After Couric Incident, CBS News to Scrutinize Its Web Content