Andy Plesser

WASHINGTON – Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Slashdot has joined the The Washington Post Company's WaPo Labs as Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large.

LONDON –  As the cost of bandwidth decreases, video is becoming the "mainstay" of the BBC's global news offering via its digital platforms, says Peter Horrocks, Director of the BBC World Service in this interview with Beet.TV

Original, made-for-the-Web video is gaining traction with brand advertisers, says Paul Kontonis, VP, Group Director, Brand Content, the Third Act, Digitas, in this inteview with Beet.TV

MSNBC.com's Xbox LIVE app is getting considerable traction as consumers are using the gaming console to watch video news on their television screens, says Stokes Young, Executive Producer of MSNBC.com in this interview with Beet.TV

SUNNYVALE, CA — Ranked by far as the biggest news site, Yahoo lacks a distinct voice and identity, but that is changing says Jai Singh, Editor-in-Chief of the Yahoo Media Network in this interview with Beet.TV

While there has been dramatic growth in online video advertising, mostly in the form of in-stream ads, there is a big opportunity for original, sponsored video programming. 

Although short, edited reports are the mainstain of video journalism on the Web, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other news organizations are commiting increased efforts around longer form, documentary-style reporting.

Tonight (2/23), Yahoo! will host a free one-hour comedy special with Bill Maher as part of extensive slate of comedy programming, says Yahoo! video chief Erin McPherson in this interview with Beet.TV

Craig Duff, former multimedia chief at Time.com, now a professor at the Medill School of Journalism, has just returned from the Middle East with this update on emerging forms of digital journalism rising from revolution in Egypt.

The fast-paced emergence of electronic exchanges, connected TV's, and mobile video has given birth to TVexchanger, a new publication which covers a range of digital video topics.

RAMP, the Boston-based pioneer in speech-to-text technology, has been providing automated transcription services to media companies for sometime, is now expanding into closed captioning with ABCNews.com and CNBC.com as customers, the company announced today.

Big Think, the New York-based publisher and syndicator of short videos of thought leaders in business, academia, politics and the arts, now provides video-centric courses to top universities including Harvard and Yale.

The Huffington Post has done very little in original video programming to date but that will change in a significant way this summer when the publisher launches a 12-hour, daily Webcast.  

Not competing with television news operations, without teleprompters or a slick set, the Wall Street Journal is leveraging the expertise and access of its reporters to create unique content, says Wendy Bounds, veteran Journal reporter and editor/host of the new daily lifestyle show titled “Off Duty.”

They may be small, but new smart phones with super Amoled screens have displays equaling big-screen TV's for watching Sunday's Super Bowl, says Peter McCarron of Verizon Wireless.

The Huffington Post, which has galvanized a massive community of millions of content creators who engage via comments, “likes,” tweets and thousands of guest blog posts, will soon participate in an ambitious linear video network, says Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media in this interview with Beet.TV

Subscribers to Verizon Wireless will be able to watch Sunday's Super Bowl game live on their smartphones in what will be the first time the game is streamed live to mobile — as well as to PCs and tablets via the Web.

The New York Times, which produces about 70 original videos per month, launched its first regularly scheduled live program this week.

With the dramatic growth of online video consumption in Europe, New York-based  online video ad management company Vindico has expanded its operations in France in Spain, having entered the UK in September.

London-based video ad services company Videoplaza has raised a new round of $12 million from Qualcomm Ventures and Innovacom, the company announced today.