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.
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. In conjunction with Facebook, ABC News produced a special this morning on the tragedy in Tucson. The 15-minute report streamed live on ABCNews.com at 11amET and was anchored by Christiane Amanpour and Dan Harris in Tucson. Another special will stream tonight at 7pmET anchored by David Muir, following “World News.” Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook took part in this morning’s stream and talked about how the shootings are playing on Facebook. Harris also asked her how sites like Facebook often host some of the hatred and rhetoric which is at the center of the discussion today.
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 “This Week” executive producer Kathy O’Hearn is leaving the TV news business to join the Daily Beast/Newsweek. O’Hearn will serve as a VP at the new joint venture.
She was most recently at CNN where she served in a number of roles, including as executive producer of Campbell Brown‘s 8 PM program and executive producer of Christiane Amanpour‘s show.
O’Hearn left “This Week” in 2008 to oversee ABC’s special event politics coverage, and moved to CNN in 2009. Earlier this year she took over the EP gig at Brown’s program.
More will hold its Reinvention Convention at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers in New York Oct. 18, and it will feature interactive events, panel discussions, shopping, and giveaways.
Good Morning America contributor and author Lee Woodruff will emcee Reinvention Convention, which will open with a breakfast keynote speech by ABC News This Week host Christiane Amanpour, who will be interviewed by More contributor Lynn Sherr. Woodruff, in turn, will interview Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen for the lunchtime discussion.
More also announced that Woodruff will host a reinvention-themed TV show for syndication.
Other speakers at Reinvention Convention will include: She Writes founding partner Deborah Siegel; celebrity makeup artist Tim Quinn; Discovery Health chief medical correspondent and Fit to Live host Pamela Peeke; International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health president Alan Altman; novelist, journalist writing coach and teacher Sally Koslow; Hyperion Books editorial director Barbara Jones; The Reinvention Institute founder and CEO Pamela Mitchell; relationship expert and Fight Less, Love More author Laurie Puhn; CBS Inside Edition special correspondent and Quiet Hero author Rita Cosby; and National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health president and CEO Susan Wysocki.
Well, we know at least one person who is in the Jake Tapper camp.
Senator John McCain took to Twitter Monday afternoon to weigh in on Christiane Amanpour‘s debut on ABC’s “This Week.”
His critique was short and to the point:
“Anyone else miss @jaketapper yesterday?”
Ouch. Tapper, ABC News’ White House correspondent, ably filled in as interim host of the program until Amanpour debuted.
Tapper brought some new features like fact-checking and live tweeting to the program, but kept the focus on U.S. politics, which is in line with “This Week’s” history and what the other Sunday public affairs shows put on the air.
Amanpour has indicated she would like to bring a more international take on the week’s news to the show, while still discussing U.S. politics.
McCain, who is a U.S. Senator, seems more inclined to favor Tapper’s inside the beltway style.
Of course, one of the biggest reasons for bringing Amanpour to “This Week” was to differentiate the program from its competition. As for McCain’s criticism, it probably won’t stop him from appearing on the program. Foreign policy is, after all, his specialty.
ABC News has revamped the website for “This Week” with Christiane Amanpour set to take over the program Sunday.
No surprisingly, it now features Amanpour’s name and headshot, as well as a preview of Sunday’s program, which will feature Nancy Pelosi and Robert Gates.
In all likelihood, if Amanpour and her production team add new features or segments, they will find their way to the new site as well.
As for the PolitiFact fact checking page, it is still on the site, but as for whether the show will continue to feature the segment, viewers will have to wait til Sunday.
ABC News anchor Christiane Amanpour wants you to check out her CNN documentary.
Amanpour, who left CNN last month after 26 years, Tweeted from her ABC account @camanpourABC about her “Generation Islam” documentary with a link to the CNN.com page.
The Tweet is tied to Monday’s takeover of a Gaza-bound relief ship by the Israeli military which left nine people dead.
The Sunday morning fact-check story is getting interesting. A few weeks ago, ABC’s Jake Tapper, who’s hosting “This Week” until Christiane Amanpour joins later this summer, is now having Bill Adair of the group Politifact fact-check his guests on any given Sunday.
A few days later, David Gregory, the moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” responded saying he thought fact-checking is an “interesting idea” but that his program will not follow ABC’s lead.
“People can fact-check Meet the Press every week on their own terms,” he told Howard Kurtz.
Well now comes “Meet the Facts.” Launched this morning, Meet the Facts is a website that describes itself as, “a non-partisan grassroots effort to encourage the NBC television program ‘Meet The Press’ to incorporate a formal fact checking procedure for all statements made on air by its guests. That analysis would then be released to the public, preferably within several days of the broadcast.”
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour will appear on CNN.com Live tomorrow at 9:15amET from London. She will discuss her recent time in Iran and the situation there, as well as answer viewer questions gathered from several user participation Web platforms, including iReport.com, Facebook and Twitter.
Go to CNN.com Live to watch and participate.
