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Articles tagged television (22)

Trump’s new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media

Laura Hazard OwenJune 26, 2019

TV is still the most common way for Americans to get local news, but fewer people are watching

Cable news is growing, local TV news is declining, and network news is roughly flat.

Shan WangFebruary 5, 2018

This hyperlocal news site in San Francisco is reinventing itself with an automated local news wire

Hoodline is focused on the local stories that can be found by mining large data sets, whether from city governments or from private companies like Yelp and Zumper.

Ricardo BiltonJanuary 25, 2018

With Left Field, NBC News is experimenting with VR, mixed reality, and other new story forms

“We know a great deal about how to make linear television and we’ve been doing it a very long time, but there is a generation of people who currently don’t have cable subscriptions, and who won’t have cable subscriptions, that are beginning to form different habits around how they consume news.”

Here’s who gets news from TV: The elderly, Pew finds (again)

Shan WangFebruary 6, 2017

Univision’s plans for the former Gawker sites: A shared business backend, less duplication, and a push into TV

“Think of all these sites as the digital, non-linear television arm of Univision.”

Shan WangJuly 27, 2016

Paywalls and politics: Independent Russian television station TV Rain turns to subscriptions as its future

Shifting the focus to digital was hardly just a business decision, though: “Really, this was pretty much the only source that could help us go through.”

Shan WangJune 29, 2016

First Look Media is building a new platform that aims to include everything from films to podcasts

Details are still scarce, but job listings reveal that it intends to take on everything from video series, feature films, podcasts, photo essays, and “storytelling in other formats and technologies like virtual reality and livestreaming.”

Nicholas QuahApril 26, 2016

Hot Pod: As more podcasts become TV shows, can their founders retain creative control?

Plus: Podcasts as time-shifted cable TV; MTV News launches its first podcasts; Postloudness moves beyond Mailchimp.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Richard SambrookApril 6, 2016

Digital disruption is coming quickly to TV news; how can broadcasters adapt and respond?

“The question should not be what will replace traditional television news. Nothing will. The question has to be: How can we move beyond television news as we know it?”

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