Tag Archives: NBC

#NBCfail and the Olympics

Posted on August 14, 2012 by marcusmessner

Around the world, the London Olympics were celebrated as a successful sporting event, from the opening to the closing ceremony. In the U.S., however, delayed television broadcasting of major Olympic events by NBC triggered a massive backlash on social media. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft and NBC split ways

Posted on July 17, 2012 by marcusmessner

Once a pioneering joint venture in the early days of the Web, Microsoft and NBC have announced this week that they will end their cooperation in MSNBC. Microsoft will sell its 50 percent share in MSNBC to NBC, which was … Continue reading →

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Shoveling tweets: Traditional media and their use of Twitter

Posted on April 1, 2011 by marcusmessner

The International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin hosted a research panel on Twitter. I presented a study that I conducted with two of my recent graduate students, Maureen Linke and Asriel Eford, from our Multimedia Journalism Master’s Program at … Continue reading →

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Blog sources have no name

Posted on August 24, 2010 by marcusmessner

At this year’s AEJMC conference in Denver, Bruce Garrison from the University of Miami and I presented a research paper (“Sources without a name”) that tracked the source relationship between traditional news media and blogs. In the study, we applied … Continue reading →

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