Social TV MedCity News growing fast, ready to expand By Mark Briggs on Jul. 16, 2010 - 10:45 AM With a team of six veteran journalists and a powerful board of advisors (including Lauren Rich Fine), MedCity News focuses on medical industry news in Ohio and and Minnesota. The site is only one of three “products” of ...
Social TV Pegasus News rolling out in select cities By Mark Briggs on Jul. 9, 2010 - 6:03 AM When Mike Orren started Pegasus News in 2005, he never expected his grass-roots local media site to be acquired. He was just trying to build a meaningful local information source that he would personally find useful. Crazy things ...
Social TV New content providers: Friend, enemy or frenemy? By Mark Briggs on Jun. 24, 2010 - 12:40 PM Some people call them the 5th estate. Others call them content mills or content farms. Whatever you call them, new content providers are a force to be reckoned with. For example, Demand Media is now working with Gannett and Hearst ...
Social TV News and media on the iPad: A mixed bag so far By Mark Briggs on Jun. 15, 2010 - 6:07 AM It’s only been a matter of weeks, but the iPad era is off to a roaring start. Sales are amazing – a new iPad is sold every three seconds – and development has been brisk, especially for media content. iPad owners ...
Social TV Local Media Insider offers practical insight – for a price By Mark Briggs on Jun. 11, 2010 - 6:42 AM Alisa Cromer is a local media entrepreneur covering local media service providers for local media companies. She launched Local Media Insider in March to solve a basic problem she was personally experiencing, which is how so many ...
Social TV iPhone 4 could be powerful multimedia production tool By Mark Briggs on Jun. 7, 2010 - 2:22 PM The ability to report and publish anywhere, anytime got a boost from a likely source today as Apple introduced the iPhone 4. While video calls, HD video and a new OS are grabbing headlines, the new device could be a powerful multi ...
Social TV Newsdesk building peer-to-peer news network By Mark Briggs on Jun. 4, 2010 - 9:07 AM News organizations continue to take new forms and shapes in the digital world. Some new enterprises merely attempt to replicate traditional structures online, but the most exciting new ventures break the mold and try to do somethi ...
Social TV 'Edgy' Newzglobe mixes business and lifestyle content By Mark Briggs on Jun. 2, 2010 - 9:42 AM While we don’t discuss international media startups often here on LR, even though we know there are interesting things happening outside of our own borders, it’s good to take a look once in a while. Today I’d lik ...
Social TV A journalism (r)evolution in Azerbaijan By Mark Briggs on May. 24, 2010 - 4:29 AM (Note: this post originally appeared at Journalism 2.0, Mark’s “other” blog.) Azerbaijan has had the world’s fastest growing economy for the past five years. That growth hasn’t extended to the media s ...
Social TV ThePortlander goes national, global By Mark Briggs on May. 15, 2010 - 3:14 PM Way back in January, it looked like 2010 would shape up to be the Year of the Journalism Startup. A few months later, we’re struggling to keep up with all the developing independent news projects and startup companies. The l ...