Posts Tagged ‘TIME’

Moderator of the Medill Club Ethics Panel 2012, Professor Jack Doppelt with alums Joyce Hanson and Sally Fryberger

Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing the Academy Awards yet again in 2012, he posted the news.

Moylan then realized the Academy had not yet confirmed the information—and anxiously awaited confirmation hoping the post would not have to be taken down (or crossed out and amended).

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Owners of Web-connected Samsung television sets now have a little TIME on their hands, as the magazine launched the free TIME Samsung TV app Monday.

The app offers users: the latest stories from TIME.com, with topics including Politics, U.S., World, Business, Technology, and Science and Entertainment; Quotes of the Day; content from blogs including Newsfeed, Techland, Healthland, and Tuned; full-screen video content with fast-forward and rewind functionality; and the ability to switch from app mode to widget mode, allowing users to access the app while watching live TV.

The TIME Samsung TV app will also offer access to photo essays, columnists, and special features such as Person of the Year and TIME 100.

The August 15, 2011 issue of TIME magazine has a great infographic in its Economy section. In fact, I’m going to refer to it in a future item here. The topic now, however, is my inability to share the information easily and attribute it properly to TIME. The content is behind TIME’s “All Access” pay wall and available through the TIME app in my iPad as well as through the web on my desktop.
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Time Inc. is going all-in when it comes to tablets, announcing Wednesday that by year-end, tablet editions will be available for all 21 of its U.S. publications.

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TIME.com Monday launched the first-ever blog edited and curated by its photography department, LightBox, aimed at showcasing imagery from TIME and enabling user commentary and sharing via social media.

LightBox is divided into seven sections: Profile, in-depth interviews with photographers and filmmakers; Photo Essay, photo stories and multimedia from TIME contributors; The Back Story, first-person accounts from subjects and photographers; In Progress, new projects from around the world; Out There, exhibits, books, and innovative uses of images; Man on the Wire, the latest news photos chosen by TIME‘s photo editors; and Toolbox, featuring new technologies and gadgets.

Contributors will include director of photography Kira Pollack; deputy photo editor Paul Moakley; international picture editor Patrick Witty; and TIME contract photographers Marco Grob, Peter Hapak, Dominic Nahr, Shaul Schwarz, Yuri Kozyrev, James Nachtwey, and Chris Morris.

CNN.com and TIME.com teamed up to launch Global Public Square, a new blog that will feature insights on global news from CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS host and TIME editor at large Fareed Zakaria, as well as journalists from the cable network and the magazine, and other expert guests.

Global Public Square is edited by CNN.com World producer Amar Bakshi, and guests set to contribute over the next few weeks include: foursquare co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai; statistics guru Hans Rosling; and Nina Hachigian, co-author of The Next American Century.

CNN’s Nic Robertson will also provide analysis on Libya’s tipping point, and CNN Cairo bureau chief Ben Wedeman will report on the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and north Africa. Global Public Square will also feature a weekly news quiz, and a books of the week entry.

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TIME.com expanded its blog roster with the addition of Global Spin, which covers global politics, diplomacy, conflicts, and their resolutions.

Contributors to Global Spin include Bobby Ghosh, Tony Karon, Tim Padgett, Hannah Beech, Catherine Mayer, Bruce Crumley, Alex Perry, Aryn Baker, Karl Vick, Jyoti Thottam, Austin Ramzy, and Emily Rauhala.

TIME.com managing editor Jim Frederick said:

One of the undeniable strengths of TIME is our ongoing commitment to international news and our strong network of correspondents who report, write, and film from the farthest-flung locales, often while under great stress or even in dire physical danger. Global Spin is designed to give our top-notch correspondents another forum to weigh in on the most important stories shaping our world even more quickly, with a greater immediacy and with a more intimate, opinionated, and conversational voice that online readers appreciate and even expect.

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TIME.com has just released their picks for the top 5 viral videos of January 2011. Which videos made the cut? Find out after the jump.

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It’s tech time at TIME.com, as the Web site announced a new partnership with Technologizer, under which it will sell all display advertising on the site run by TIME.com weekly columnist Harry McCracken, as well as counting its traffic under the TIME.com domain for comScore and Nielsen reporting purposes.

TIME.com also announced the addition of John Tayman as editor of technology channel Techland. Tayman has served as an editor and writer for publications including Men’s Health, Business 2.0, Men’s Journal, and New York Times Sports Magazine.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has more important things to worry about, like trying to secure his release on bail from prison in Sweden. There is no celebrating in the office of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Lady Gaga is not dancing. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have one less thing to be smug about on Comedy Central, and ditto for Glenn Beck on Fox News Channel. President Barack Obama is dealing with more significant issues, like war and unemployment. Steve Jobs is gearing up for the release of the second-generation iPad. The Chilean miners are probably just happy to be alive. And, much like Assange and Obama, the unemployed American has far more significant issues to deal with.

What do all of those people have in common? They all finished ahead of Mark Zuckerberg in voting by TIME readers for its 2010 Person of the Year, yet the Facebook co-founder and CEO rebounded from finishing No. 10 on the readers’ poll and impressed the magazine’s editors enough to be named TIME 2010 Person of the Year.

From the explanation penned by managing editor Richard Stengel:

Like two of our runners-up this year, Julian Assange and the Tea Party, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have a whole lot of veneration for traditional authority. In a sense, Zuckerberg and Assange are two sides of the same coin. Both express a desire for openness and transparency. While Assange attacks big institutions and governments through involuntary transparency with the goal of disempowering them, Zuckerberg enables individuals to voluntarily share information with the idea of empowering them. Assange sees the world as filled with real and imagined enemies; Zuckerberg sees the world as filled with potential friends. Both have a certain disdain for privacy: In Assange’s case because he feels it allows malevolence to flourish; in Zuckerberg’s case because he sees it as a cultural anachronism, an impediment to a more efficient and open connection between people.