Media

For the first time since the collaboration of ABC News and Yahoo! was announced in October, comScore has reported online traffic for the joint effort and finds it has served over 400 million views in February — which is more than half of all the video news views streamed in North America in the month.

With new video studio in New York, the big sports blog network SB Nation has launched an ambitious channel of sports videos on YouTube. 

WASHINGTON, DC — The Washington Post  has introduced  two new video shows for the Web,  59 Seconds, an update on on Washington-based news and Trail Mix, a report from Post staffers on the presidential campaign trail.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seeing an emerging playing field where Internet delivered video news will eventually be on par with cable, Politico will broadly expand its video programming this year, says Jim VandeHei, Executive Editor, in this interview with Beet.TV

The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism, is inviting a broad range of digital/Web video news journalists to submit for this year's awards, says Abi Wright, Director of the program in this interview with Beet.TV

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA  — Google's reboot of its Google TV over-the-top product aims to bring changes to the service that will help it win traction with consumers.

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

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

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.

The domestic and world economy is driving presidential politics and many other major developments, making business and financial news the "big story" –  and the New York Times is ambitiously expanding coverage with several blogs and new business video programming, says Larry Ingrassia in this interview with Beet.TV

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.

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.  

CBS is kicking off a robust slate of pre-Grammys programming online starting on Friday February 10 for the three days leading up to the music industry awards night on Sunday February 12, said Marc DeBevoise, Senior VP and General Manager, Entertainment, at CBS Interactive in this interview with Beet.TV

Yahoo!, which has gained a substantial foothold in the Middle East with its acquistion of the Arab language portal Maktoob, has agreeement with the Qatar to create a significant content portal, the Gulf state and Yahoo! announced today.

Digital sports media property Perform has added new syndication partners for its video player including Los Angeles Times, Sporting News on AOL, New York Newsday, and others, and those additions will help keep the now-public company on pace for more growth in 2012, the company’s Juan Delgado, Managing Director of Americas, told Beet.TV during a […]

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.”

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

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

As big news organizations including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and and Reuters put an increasing effort around made-for-the-Web video news reporting, Yahoo’s Daily Ticker has built a formidable audience over the past four years.