BET.com News Producer Tracy Stokes Dies
Posted by Angela
The journalism world and Black Entertainment Television lost a true professional and friend Sunday afternoon when BET.com news producer Tracy Stokes succumbed to complications from kidney failure. He was 37 years old.
BET.com News Producer Tracy Stokes
According to his mother, Lilly Stokes, a retired teacher living in North Carolina, Tracy died a 4:07 p.m. Sunday at [...]
Read MoreBreaking: Essence Lays Off Digital Team
Posted by Angela
Via Journalsticks: After relaunching their website last week, Essence magazine laid off its web team today citing budgetary reasons.
“They told us it was downsizing,” says one Essence employee. “We’re very confused. We worked so hard for the relaunch.”
Another insider tells J’sticks: “This is normal practice. Companies relaunch with new [site] schemes that allow them to [...]
Black Media, Instead of Mimicking Blogs Why not just Acquire?
Posted by Angela
As of late we’ve seen so many traditional Black/Urban Media companies either redesign as blogs, create blog properties as part of their holdings, or transform their content channels into blogs. In nearly every case that I’ve seen this happen not one company has been able to knock it out of the park. In many cases [...]
Read MoreWhat I Learned about Raising Capital from Ron Conway
Posted by Angela
Not long ago we posted about a private event in the Valley that we were able to giveaway spaces to a few of you about raising capital. The panel was moderated by Jay Ward and featured Ron Conway, MC Hammer and Brian Patterson. Five slots were held for Black Web 2.0 readers and we gave four away. Wesley Michel was one of the four. He is working on launching a real-time app for local markets. Here is his first person account of the event:
Read MoreBET.com ditches BET On Blast, Takes note from Hulu
Posted by Angela
Though the BET On Blast video player was nice when it launched a little over 2 years ago video on the web has certainly moved in another direction. Specifically if you happen to be a television network. BET.com recently ditched the BET on Blast player, which many thought was hard to navigate, and leveled the [...]
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