Fast Company has an interesting article about Rob Curley, the newspaper new media guru who is now VP of Development at Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive. It tracks his career from Kansas to the Post and his interest it making it all local.

Google has bought YouTube for 1.65 Billion dollars (that is $1,065,000,000 if you need to see all the zeros to realize how much it is) in a stock to stock transition. I wonder how many of YouTube’s 67 employees will be instant millionaires when the deal goes through? That’s right [...]

In the news website contest a key piece of the puzzle is breaking news. For local news websites it has always been the local TV stations vs. the newspaper. The TV stations have always had to compete, but competition is new to most monopoly newspapers. This morning in Memphis the [...]

Another recent study published in the journal of Psychological Science tested people to see what images they liked the most. They tested people by showing them images made up of dot and geometric patterns and variations. The results showed that the less time it took to classify a pattern, the [...]

An Indiana University study has shown The Daily Show to be as substantive as network news. Julie Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications said, ” there is some substance on there, and in some cases, like John Edwards announcing his candidacy, the news is made on the show. You have real [...]