Posts Tagged ‘ABC News’

ABC News’ Diane Sawyer used her big scoop — the first televised interview with Jaycee Dugard — to break in her Twitter account.

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Media outlets including ABC News, CNN, BBC, ITV, and Sky incorporated Twitter into their coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton last Friday, and Chloe Sladden of Twitter’s media team highlighted some of the ways Twitter and TV worked together in a post on the Twitter Media blog.

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And the Lord said, “Let there be social media.” In an interview with anchor Christiane Amanpour for ABC News’ This Week with Christiane Amanpour, the Rev. Franklin Graham said social media will be an important factor in the second coming of Jesus Christ.

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ABC News senior vice president of digital Paul Slavin sent the following email to his staff commending them on their efforts in covering Friday’s earthquake in Japan and Pacific tsunami, noting that the site streamed more video Friday than on any other day in its history:

Although the tragedy in Japan is still unfolding, we are proud to report that Friday, March 11, was the largest single-day consumption of video in the history of ABCNews.com.

Divisionwide coverage contributed to nearly 4 million video starts on the site, exceeding notable events including the 2009 inauguration, the 2008 election, and Michael Jackson’s memorial, among others.

Also of note, ABC News Digital ranked No. 8 in Nielsen in February, marking the 22nd consecutive month we have been in the top 10 news websites in the country. Our average rank over that period has been No. 8, and prior to that, we were consistently 14th.

With continued excellence in breaking news coverage, consistent technical improvements, and redoubling our commitment to essentials such as SEO, we are confident that the future will bring even more success.

The hiring binge continues at The Newsweek/Daily Beast Co. LLC, as ABC News World News with Diane Sawyer producer Susie Banikarim was named executive producer of video for The Daily Beast and Newsweek.

REVISED at 12:20 p.m. ET: She will join a familiar face at NewsBeast: vice president Kathy O’Hearn, who came on board in December after serving as executive producer of CNN’s Campbell Brown and Amanpour. Prior to CNN, O’Hearn was the executive producer of ABC News’ This Week.

ABC World News with Diane Sawyer launched an online interactive component as a companion to the “Made in America” series that will air on the newscast next week: an interactive map of the United States that features products made in the country, along with company recommendations.

Made in America features a family’s attempt to furnish three rooms or their home solely with products that are made in the United States. ABC News said nearly 60 percent of Americans’ purchases originate from overseas, compared with just 8 percent in 1960.

Arianna Huffington will be part of a roundtable discussion on Sunday’s installment of ABC News’ This Week with Christiane Amanpour.

The subject is the Egyptian revolution, the role of social media, and what Egypt means for the rest of the Middle East, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if a certain transaction found its way into the discussion.

The other seats at the roundtable will be filled by Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution, ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, and ABC News’ George Will.

ABC News will launch dedicated Web site SaveOne.net Friday, Dec. 17, in conjunction with a special edition of 20/20, Be the Change: Save a Life, focused on the health conditions the poorest people on the planet deal with and innovations that may help them.

SaveOne.net will serve as a clearinghouse for global health information and allow viewers to get involved, also offering unique content from ABC News reporters around the globe as they report through the year.

Be the Change: Save a Life, anchored by Diane Sawyer and airing at 10 p.m. ET Dec. 17, will feature: Sawyer comparing maternity wards in Brooklyn and Afghanistan; Elizabeth Vargas reporting from India; Dr. Richard Besser returning to Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he worked 20 years ago; Chris Cuomo looking for clean water in the jungles of the Central African Republic; Christiane Amanpour reporting from remote villages of Guatemala and Niger, Africa; Deborah Roberts visiting the Kingdom in the Sky; Dan Harris examining tuberculosis in Cambodia; and Jay Schadler and a team of camels making up a medical camel caravan trekking through the nomadic Samburu region of Kenya.

Former ABCNews.com vice president Jonathan Dube joined Aol as senior VP and general manager of Aol News & Information, where he will oversee the Internet giant’s Aol News, Aol Tech, Aol Finance, and Aol Sports groups.

Dube accepted a buyout when ABC News implemented a reorganization in June. Prior to ABCNews.com, he served as senior digital media executive for Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s news division and managing producer at msnbc.com.

Dube told paidContent he chose Aol because CEO Tim Armstrong‘s vision “is right in line with my personal passions” of transforming media through technology, adding, “I’ve been incredibly impressed by Tim’s vision for Aol and by his and (Aol Media & Studios president) David Eun‘s commitment to building the media network of the future. I’ve also met with a lot of people at Aol — executives and journalists — and been blown away with the quality of people they have been hiring. I can honestly say in my career I’ve never encountered an organization with such an amazing combination of both digital talent and journalism talent.”

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ABC News Nightline introduced a way for Twitter users to customize their feeds and follow key races in the upcoming midterm elections, via topic or location.

NightlineNow.com provides real-time Tweets, and users can also choose to follow what Nightline anchors Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran, and Bill Weir, or correspondents John Donvan and Vicki Mabrey, are following.