Show Me Your Sources

Lately the blogosphere is buzzing about Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thompson’s complaint that Google devalues everything.

I agree with TechDirt’s Mike Masnick who argues that Google does precisely the opposite: It adds value.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090213/0249023757.shtml

Here’s a quote from Masnick’s insightful rebuttal:

“Google doesn’t devalue things it touches. It increases their value by making them easier to find and access. Google increases your audience as a content creator, which is the most important asset you have.”

Similarly, Newsy.com provides users access to sources that they would not have discovered on their own. And because every story we produce creates two links back to the featured sources - one in the transcript and the other in the main title of the story - we are increasing the audience for the content creator.

Yesterday’s story, Climate Change “Exceeds Predictions

” features sources like NDTV and ITN that are not on most Americans’ radar screens.

What other sources should we be following?  We’d love to hear your feedback.

Right Space, Right Time

According to eMarketer, ‘news/current events’ remains the number one type of online video content that US online video viewers watch monthly or more frequently. That’s good news for Newsy and another proof point that we are in the right space at the right time.

This morning’s video is about how Obama might need to cash in on his personality to tackle the country’s many challenges. A complicated topic requires multiple opinions — Newsy delivers with a wide spectrum of sources. In less than three minutes, you understand all sides of an issue - so you can form your own opinion.