Top HeadlinesWhat does Phil DeFranco's new deal with Revision3 say about the state of the industry, and are there other creators might be right for similar deals? Read More »Aereo's careful plan to upend the TV industry was going fine -- until an LA company, with a streaming service of its own, got in the way. Here's an inside view of what happened. Read More »The Chicago Sun-Times' decision to lay off its entire staff of 28 photographers was widely criticized as a knee-jerk response by clueless managers, but the fact remains that newspaper cost structures are too high, and crowdsourcing works. Read More »The Wall Street Journal has said it is planning to launch a LinkedIn-style social network for readers, and Bloomberg appears to be launching (or relaunching) one as well -- but is this really what their readers or users want? Read More »The winner of the Publishing Hackathon will be chosen at BookExpo America on Friday afternoon, and I'll be live blogging here starting at 3 PM ET. Read More »Rap Genius started out as a website that lets fans annotate rap lyrics, but it's expanded to allow annotation of lots of different types of content. Cooking site Food52 has partnered with Rap Genius to let users annotate recipes, and Sheryl Sandberg annotated the first chapter of Lean In. Read More »The departure of Thomson Reuters' social-media editor sparked a debate about whether the position as we know it is dead or dying -- but while those jobs may be evolving, the skills involved are more necessary than ever. Read More »Netflix wants to triple its original content spend within the next few years, according to its Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos. Read More » |