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#NBCfail and the Olympics
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
Posted in International, Journalism, Legacy Media, Social Media
Tagged #NBCfail, Audience, Global, IOC, London, NBC, Olympics, Social Media, Social Media Professor, Technology, TV, Twitter
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Microsoft and NBC split ways
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
Posted in Business, Journalism, Legacy Media
Tagged Business, Comcast, corporations, General Electric, Joint Venture, Microsoft, MSNBC, NBC, Social Media Professor, Split, Strategy, TV, Web
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Shoveling tweets: Traditional media and their use of Twitter
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
Posted in International, Journalism, Legacy Media, Research, Social Media
Tagged ABC, Audience, Bookmarking, CBS, CNN, Community, Facebook, Fox News, ISOJ, LA Times, MySpace, NBC, New York Times, Newspaper, Sharing, Shovelware, Social Media, Social Media Professor, Strategy, Technology, Twitter, USA Today, VCU, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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Blog sources have no name
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
Posted in Blogs, Journalism, Legacy Media, Politics, Research
Tagged ABC, AEJMC, Agenda Setting, Blogs, CBS, Christian Science Monior, CNN, Election, Fox News, LA Times, NBC, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media Professor, Sources, TV, USA Today, Washington Post
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