YouTube News manager Olivia Ma spoke with Beet.TV about the role that mobile uploads to the Google-owned video site have played in breaking news coverage of the political conflicts in the Middle East and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. FT.com managing director Robert Grimshaw spoke with Beet.TV at the paidContent 2011 conference last week, saying that some 45 percent of digital news is now consumed via mobile devices, and adding that his site’s approximately 200,000 subscriptions equal one-half of worldwide print subscriptions to Financial Times.
Aol CEO Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington, who will be president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group once the merger between Aol and The Huffington Post closes, spoke at the paidContent 2011 conference in New York Thursday, as captured by Beet.TV.
Huffington said she “won’t mess” with Aol properties such as TechCrunch and Engadget, adding that the platform for bloggers will be larger and more attractive post-merger. Armstrong touched on Aol’s video plans.
The Washington Post editor of video Steven King pinned the success of original news on the Web to securing integrated sponsorships during a panel at the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit, moderated by WebNewser editor Alex Weprin. King mentioned how sponsor logos are integrated into the show set and the video-player skin during Post Today.
In the second installment of Journal Register CEO John Paton‘s conversation with Beet.TV, he discussed the newspaper publisher’s integration of Critical Media‘s Syndicaster cloud-based editing, production, and syndication platform. After the jump, Critical Media CEO Sean Morgan offers more details on Syndicaster.
Journal Register CEO John Paton is aiming high, telling Beet.TV that his 324 or so publications, which serve more than 900 communities in 10 states, will beat Aol’s Patch and The Huffington Post in its home markets.
Paton said his company’s sites are reaching 16 million monthly unique visitors, up from 13 million last year.
Reuters Insider managing director Mark Stepanovich spoke with Beet.TV about the subscription service, which includes video content from banks including JP Morgan Chase and UBS, as well as feeds from 200 financial institutions and business news producers including CNBC, Forbes.com, and Beet.TV.
According to a study of 100 U.S. newspapers by The Associated Press, many are cutting their use of Web video and laying off video journalists due to cost-cutting measures. AP director of U.S. broadcast news Kevin Roach discussed the results with Beet.TV, saying newspapers should seize the opportunities presented by social media and mobile devices, including tablets, and keep video in their editorial mix.
Chris Cillizza, managing editor of The Washington Post‘s PostPolitics and author of blog The Fix, must have been hungry during this session at the Beet.TV Online Video Journalism Summit, as he said newspapers must stop serving up only “meat and potatoes” and offer a “buffet” of content. Cillizza spoke about Web-video successes and failures at the Post.
The Associated Press director of U.S. broadcast operations Kevin Roach explained why the AP did not stream the 30-minute live interview on YouTube conducted by President Barack Obama Jan. 27. On a panel at the Beet.TV Online Video Journalism Summit, he said the segment was shot on White House cameras and mentioned the journalistic challenges for news organizations that prefer to manage newsgathering on their own or via a collaborative pool.
