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Former Managing Editor of St. Louis Post- Dispatch and STLtoday.com Joins Multi-Source Online Video News Service
COLUMBIA, MO – November 4, 2009 — Newsy.com, the multi-source online and mobile video news service, has hired Pam Maples, former managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com, as vice president of editorial.
“Pam’s editorial vision and proven ability for building innovative news products will propel Newsy.com to the leadership position for multi-source news,” explains Jim Spencer, president of Newsy.com. “We are thrilled to have attracted such a remarkable and respected news and editorial leader who will deliver multi-source news where, when and how our viewers want it.”
During her tenure, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch won several awards for online and video news, including from the Online News Association, and was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. Previously, Maples was assistant managing editor of investigations at The Dallas Morning News where she was a member of the reporting team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. Maples was a 2006 Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University and is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
In addition, Jim Flink, a weekend news anchor and news reporter at KMBC-TV, Kansas City’s ABC affiliate, has joined Newsy.com as an editorial advisor. Flink was awarded a regional Emmy for spot news coverage and anchored the newscast that won the National Edward R. Murrow Award. Flink received his master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
A news analyzer, not a news aggregator, Newsy.com is the only multi-source video news service producing daily videos that analyze the key differences in how a story is being reported by various news organizations. Newsy.com offers context with convenience — in 2 to 3 minutes, users understand the nuances in coverage.
About Newsy.com
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Newsy.com (http://www.newsy.com) is a multi-source online video news site that monitors, analyzes and presents the world’s news coverage. Through short video segments available on the web and mobile devices, Newsy.com accelerates the understanding of how a news story is covered differently by media outlets around the world.
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Columbia, MO - October 15, 2009 — Newsy.com’s multi-source video news app currently is ranked #6 on the list of free apps in the News category in the iTunes App Store. Since Apple featured the Newsy app in its ‘New and Noteworthy’ section in the App Store on Monday, the Newsy app has climbed the rankings - passing several established news brands.
“We’re thrilled about Newsy’s ascension up the list of free news apps - it’s affirmation that Newsy.com is ahead of the trends for news and news delivery,” explains Newsy.com President Jim Spencer.
Clearly, the Newsy app is meeting demand for news content on mobile devices - the number of Americans using mobile devices to access news doubled from 2008 to 22.4 million, according to comScore.
The launch of Newsy.com this past year was remarkably timed with several important trends, including: 1) the growing perception of a bias in the news (and therefore a need for multi-source news) and 2) the increasing demand for online video.
A news analyzer, not a news aggregator, Newsy.com is the only multi-source video news service producing daily videos that analyze the key differences in how a story is being reported by various news organizations. In 2 to 3 minutes, users understand the nuances in coverage - offering context with convenience.
About Newsy.com
Newsy.com (http://www.newsy.com) is a multi-source online video news site that monitors, analyzes and presents the world’s news coverage. Through short video segments available on the web and mobile devices, Newsy.com accelerates the understanding of how a news story is being covered differently by media outlets from around the world.
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Yesterday, Apple started featuring the Newsy app in the ‘New and Noteworthy’ section of the App Store. During the day, the Newsy app climbed the Free Apps list in the News category - - currently the Newsy.com app is ranked # 5 - ahead of The Time, WSJ and Huffington Post apps!
The buzz has been extraordinary — thousands of people are downloading the apps, it has a three star ratings (beating out other news apps like MSNBC’s and NPR’s) and reviews of the app have been stellar.
Over the past year, we’ve been thrilled at how well we timed the launching of Newsy.com with a couple of key trends - 1) the growing perception of a bias in the news and 2) the increasing demand for online video.
Now we’re ecstatic that the Newsy app is clearly meeting the demand for news content on mobile devices. On Friday, in Diane Mermigas’ article ‘Mobile: The New Mass Medium‘, she discusses consumers’ 24/7 love affair with wireless mobile devices and highlights the thirst for news content:
“The number of Americans using mobile devices to access news and other information doubled from 2008 to 22.4 million as enterprise workers perform functions on mobile devices that were formerly reserved for laptops, according to comScore. A survey of 300 Bostonians conducted for Samsung reveals that one-third would rather forgo sex for a entire year than give up their cell phones for that amount of time.”
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The news last week that our iPhone app is now available for downloads from the iTunes App Store made quite a splash.
The app is being downloaded at a fast clip and reviews of the app have been nothing but positive at a range of
mobile,
tech and
app review sites - the site iPhone News Updated highlighted Newsy’s cool user interface and low cost (FREE!).
The announcement prompted
Wired to write an article about Newsy.com that positions us a fix for “broken news” - offering news junkies a better understanding of “what they may already think they know well by seeing it though a different prism.”
Download the app today and tell us what you think!
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Columbia, MO – September 30, 2009 - The Newsy.com iPhone App is now available for downloads from the iTunes Store, offering users quick mobile access to Newsy.com’s unique multi-source news videos on their iPhones and iPod Touches.
The free application is easy-to-use and features a simple, clear user interface that complements the iPhone and iPod Touch experience. With just one touch, users can watch the latest Newsy.com multi-source news videos. Updated instantaneously with the website, the application allows users to browse videos with the gravity scroll or search specifically with keywords.
Newsy.com President Jim Spencer explains, “More and more people are consuming their news on the go and in short snippets – our iPhone app is Newsy.com’s next step in delivering our content to the fast-growing mobile video market.”
Newsy.com is the only multi-source video news service producing daily videos that analyze the key differences in how a story is being reported by various news organizations. In 2 to 3 minutes, users understand the nuances in coverage – offering context with convenience.
The application enables users to share videos via Twitter, Facebook and email as well as read and post comments – which are instantaneously synced with the website.
The award-winning team that developed the real estate application, NearBuy, built Newsy.com’s application.
About Newsy.com
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Newsy.com (http://www.newsy.com) is a multi-source online video news site that monitors, analyzes and presents the world’s news coverage. Through short video segments available on the web and mobile devices, Newsy.com accelerates the understanding of how a news story is being covered differently by media outlets from around the world.
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At Newsy, we take innovation seriously. From story suggestions to video production improvements, we are constantly making changes - many of them based on ideas sent to us from our viewers. In the past couple of months, we’ve tried out new anchors, new graphical elements and new story-telling formats … and we’re just getting started.
Last week, we started to deliver our content via a CDN, which offers users faster download speeds and fewer viewing interruptions.
Luckily improvements are not going unnoticed. As I pointed out in my last post, bloggers are embedding Newsy videos at a regular clip. And our videos are the subjects of Tweets on a daily basis.
You can look forward to more innovations in our content when our new VP of editorial starts next month.
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Yep, we’re growing and we have a huge opportunity for the right person - please take a look at our vice president of editorial job description. If the shoe fits, then please email us at max@newsy.com - if you know someone who would thrive in the role then please forward it on to them. We are thrilled to be hiring this essential role and are looking for the best person on the planet to join our team.
Vice President of Editorial at Newsy.com
Newsy.com is a multiperspective video news service provided by Media Convergence Group, Inc. A leader in online and mobile video news, Newsy.com is based in Columbia, MO and partnered with the Missouri School of Journalism. We are a privately funded start up and provide medical benefits, stock options, an extraordinary work environment and a state-of-the-art digital newsroom.
The vice president of editorial is responsible for developing and executing the editorial voice, editorial brand and editorial vision for Newsy.com and reports to Newsy’s president.
Primary Responsibilities:
* Leading the editorial team and responsible for the content, editorial products and direction of the website.
* Innovating ahead of the competition - defining and winning our strategic category.
* Analyzing metrics and audience research and proactively anticipating the needs of our viewers and customers.
* Representing the website to external organizations interested in the website, public forums and panels and to outside media.
* Training, supervising, mentoring and evaluating members of the editorial team. Teaching an advanced level editorial course to undergraduate and graduate students at the Missouri School of Journalism.
* Generating story ideas, writing, editing and publishing of content.
Qualifications:
* Excellent writing and editing skills, and demonstrated ability to conceive and execute creative and innovative editorial projects.
* 10-15 years of senior editorial leadership experience with demonstrated success in building and delivering editorial voice and vision.
* Deep understanding of the video news market for online and mobile devices.
* Proven people management experience.
* Driven work ethic and self-starting attitude - strong mentoring skills.
* Exceptional ability to innovate and desire to learn new software and technologies, listen to audiences and quickly drive and adapt to change.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, a true team player.
* Passionate, ethical, honest, flexible and humble – a real news junkie who will build an innovative and remarkably useful news service.
Please send resumes to: max@newsy.com
