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Yesterday, we announced the hiring of Newsy.com’s new VP of Editorial, Pam Maples, and new Editorial Advisor, Jim Flink.
The reaction from the press and public has been astounding - it speaks to the reputation of these remarkable professionals and to the opportunity at Newsy.com.
Journalism sites, national press and local press all featured the news; an article in the world’s most popular tech blog, TechCrunch, included this quote:
“I wasn’t joking when I wrote Newsy has one of the best iPhone apps for news consumption on the go. But the startup is more than just about mobile applications: it’s on a mission to build a solid news destination site that collects and analyzes perspectives from multiple sources and wraps these views into snack-sized videos.
Keep your eyes on this one – and you can take that literally.”
To catch up on the latest Newsy buzz, click on the links below:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004032955
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=172877
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/367590-Newsy_com_Taps_Maples_Flink.php
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/deb-petersons-breaking-schmooze/uncategorized/2009/11/former-post-dispatch-managing-editor-pam-maples-becomes-vp-of-editorial-at-newsycom/
http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/6203/2009/11/03/newsy-com-hires-editorial-vp-advisor/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110400972.html
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/nov/06/ex-post-dispatch-editor-joins-newsy/
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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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In an article for the fall edition of Nieman Reports, ‘Let’s Talk: Journalism and Social Media’, RJI Fellow Michael Skoler questions the notion that the Internet is to blame for journalism’s lost business model. He asserts that journalism began losing its value when it started to become less relevant a few decades ago. The connection journalists had to their communities diminished once news conglomerates took over local papers and stations and cut on-the-ground reporters.
Skoler believes discussions about saving the future of journalism should not be about finding a new business model - the focus should be on how to make news more valuable. After all, people only pay for what has obvious value to them - as Skoler puts it - “every good business plan starts by explaining how it creates value for the customer.”
The Economist and The Week
are two of today’s more successful media outlets. The value these magazines offer is not only in the smart analysis of everything they consider worth knowing – but also in the smart packaging. Smart analysis and smart packaging overlap very closely with Newsy’s vision and goals.
Newsy offers value to consumers by providing analysis on a variety of sources and perspectives in short video clips - we blend context with convenience.
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Among younger online users, Web video is now approaching total saturation. A recent Pew report found that nine in 10 Web viewers aged 18 to 29 say they watch content on video-sharing sites, and more than a third in that age group (36%) say they do so every day.
Ipsos MediaCT report finds awareness of specific online video sites is on the rise: Hulu saw market awareness increase from 9% to 41% between September 2008 and April 2009 – and YouTube saw awareness increase from 83% to 87% during that same time period. These are significant jumps.
Newsy.com’s awareness is on the rise too - users are Tweeting, sharing and embedding our videos more and more every month. We rolled out the current version of the Newsy site in April, and have made improvements every month. October is shaping up to be an exciting month - you’ll see significant changes to our content and design. Stay tuned for a some major announcements in the coming weeks!
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Everyday there’s a deluge of articles about Twitter but I found yesterday’s Huffington Post column one of the most relevant to Newsy.
Tom Morris’ post ‘Twisdom: Twitter Wisdom‘ explains how Twitter, when done right, enables people to build connections with people all around the world who want to share nuggets of information. Through this cyber community, a wealth of insight and perspective is bestowed upon those who participate – something Morris calls ‘Twisdom.’
Newsy has been a believer in Twitter from the beginning - we use it as a source for Newsy videos and we check to see the news topics that are trending on Twitter so we can produce videos with multiple perspectives on the topics that people are thinking about.
Twitter has been a great way to drive traffic to the Newsy site - visitors who come to Newsy from Twitter stay for up to 20 minutes. We encourage people to follow @Newsydotcom to learn about the day’s videos and other Newsy nuggets - we recently celebrated our 600th follower. And as of this week, you can now follow @NewsyRSS to get Newsy video headlines as soon as they are published.
This week’s Newsy video “To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question,” looks at some of the professional athletes who are Tweeting and how sports associations are reacting. Another story this week, ‘A Twitter TwOpera,’ is about an opera created from Twitter submissions.
So far, Newsy videos about Twitter have been popular but we’d love to hear what you think!
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Yesterday, Slate unveiled
The Slatest, a thrice-daily recap of a day’s news cycles. The new site is replacing Slate’s ‘Today’s Papers’, a once-a-day summary of national news that was one of the Web’s first aggregators.
The Slatest joins a group of other web aggregators including
Newser,
The Daily Beast and
The Stimulist. These sites claim to filter and curate the news - promising the reader that they will only consume the most important news nuggets during their busy day.
Each web aggregator describes their value proposition a bit differently. The Slatest’s describes itself as ‘The most important news and commentary to read right now,’ The Daily Beast offers ‘Curated news aggregation,’ Newser invites viewers to ‘Read less, know more,’ and The Stimulist offers ‘A daily brief for the (curious) optimist.’
None of these sites analyzes a variety of video and text reports and point out the key differences in reporting. And all of these sites are text based - not offering online video, which is increasingly what Web viewers are looking for. Only Newsy.com analyzes the news, it doesn’t just aggregate it.
