AOL’s New News Site Starts Out Color-Free
by Lesly Simmons
Last week the Journalism Educators Association hosted their fall national high school journalist’s conference in Washington, DC, and I was honored to host a session for a small group of young writers. Early estimates say there were more than 6,000 high school journalists from across the country attending, and their excitement was visible—a couple of Metro stops from the convention hotel I noticed groups of kids with cameras and note pads out capturing stories.
Read MoreBlackVoices Diversifies with Domains
by Angela
Like most of you I primarily use Quantcast and compete to measure the traffic of other websites. When someone happens to hook me up I use Comscore as well. BlackVoices.com looks to have had a huge dip in traffic on sites like Quantcast and compete. this is largely because they are not classified into a network, Comscore’s equivalent to a media type (M). being classified this way has it’s benefits especially if you are hard at work serving niches as part of your strategy. September Comscore numbers show that Black Voices is actually at about 4.9M unique visitors (October numbers aren’t out yet) classified as a media type. I chatted briefly with Tariq Muhammad today about Black Voices’ new strategy.
Read MoreCNN’s Black In America Online
by Nokware Knight
CNN’s Black in America television special attracted as many as 2.6 million viewers in a single sitting. Despite its success, CNN has yet to take full advantage of what has the potential to be a marquee brand online. It would be to the widely-acclaimed cable news channel’s benefit to take one of the following steps [...]
Read More08.15.08 webNews Wrap-up
by Markus Robinson
In case you missed it….
AOL Acquires SocialThing
Google’s Feedburner Switches to Adsense
Yahoo Board Adds Icahn Nominees Chapple, Biondi
Twitter Cuts U.K Texting
Facebook Sued over Beacon
Time Warner Splitting AOL, Preparing for Possible Sale
by Markus Robinson
Time Warner Inc., announced that they will be splitting AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising business into separate divisions by early 2009. This announcement follows major budget cuts to AOL’s blogging properties as well as complete cuts of some of AOL’s products including; Bluestring, Xdrive and AOL Pictures, according to an internal memo from Kevin Conroy, [...]
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