Vibe Founder Quincy Jones “Trying” to Buy Back Magazine

In an exclusive interview with EbonyJet.com (Vibe Closes Down, Quincy Jones Wants it Back), Quincy Jones founder of the newly folded Vibe Magazine, told writer Adrienne Samuels Gibbs that he was trying to buy back the magazine. He also stated that he would bring it back to life “albeit in a slightly different way.” ‘ “I’m trying [...]

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VIBE Shuts Down Today

Global Grind and Gawker are reporting from unconfirmed sources that VIBE Magazine is shutting down today, an announcement is reportedly expected at 2pm today.  You may remember just a few weeks ago our podcast with Danyel Smith who was recently promoted to Chief Content Office of Vibe Media Group.  Vibe also recently announced a new [...]

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BET Awards Dominate Twitter, Causes Racist Backlash

Say what you will about the content of the BET Awards.  I tuned in late but monitored activity on Twitter last night and to be quite honest was surprised and pleased to see not only Twitter’s integration into the show but also the show dominating trending topics on Twitter.  They even used the awards show [...]

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Michael Jackson “Collapses” Web as Twitter Trends His Death and Google Sleeps?!

Michael Jackson's name surfaced in the number 3 and 6 positions on Google's list of the top 100 trending topics about fifty-four or more minutes after the first tweet on Twitter trended the same topic.

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Johnson Publishing Company: Under Seige

According to Chicago Business, Johnson Publishing Company is experiencing the worst financial downturn in its 67-year history.

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Nicol Turner-Lee Appointed VP/Director of Media & Technology Institute

Target Market News reports that The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has appointed Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee as a Vice President and the first Director of its Media and Technology Institute, which was established last year to study how the media industry and emerging communications technologies can become avenues of advancement for people of color.

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African American Broadband Usage Below Average, Use of Mobile Web on the Rise

The Pew Internet & American Life Project recently released a report on broadband usage that posits while usage is up (63% of USA homes), African Americans are still below average in their use. The report, Home Broadband Adoption 2009,  states that An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows [...]

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MySpace Eliminates 30 Percent of its “Bloated” Staff

MySpace, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, announced that it has cut 30 percent or approximately 400 people from its payroll in effort to return to a "startup culture." The layoffs will reduce the number of MySpace employees to around 1000.

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CollectiveX Rebrands as Groupsite.com

Creator and CEO of CollectiveX groupsites, Clarence Wooten, Jr., has taken a wise step and rebranded CollectiveX as Groupsite.com. CollectiveX was and will continue to be a unique social networking platform for groups that provides users the best features of discussion forums, email lists, calendars, intranet and social networks. Groupsites are FREE to setup and can [...]

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Robert Fitzgerald Joins GlobalHue as Executive Vice President - Media Director

Advertising Age's #1 African American (#4 Hispanic) advertising agency in the nation, GlobalHue, recently appointed international advertising and marketing expert Robert Fitzgerald as their Executive Vice President - Media Director.

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