Media Coverage at CES 2017 as Big as Consumer Electronics Show Itself
By Steve Winter Years ago, the practice of generating media coverage for companies at CES was a basic matter of “working the street corners.” Regardless of whether an exhibiting company…
Washington Post to Add “an Astounding Number” of Jobs in 2017, Reports Politico
“Twenty-sixteen was the year The Washington Post came of age — again. In its audience growth, in the ambitiousness of its journalism, in its…
Mezzobit Analysis Examines Technology Used by Mainstream vs. “Opinionated” News Sites
The recent U.S. presidential election spurred an intense debate over the influence of news sites that target more politically conservative readers, reports New…
Sinclair Seeks Applications for its Broadcast Diversity Scholarship Fund
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is accepting applications for the second year of its Broadcast Diversity Scholarship Fund. The $500,000 scholarship fund was established…
Washington Post is “Profitable and Growing” States Publisher
A New York magazine piece in June detailing Washington Post’s Jeff Bezos/Martin Baron-era innovations came with an acknowledgement that Bezos’ post-…
Publishers Take On Ad-Agency Roles With Branded Content, States Wall Street Journal
A New York Times Co. staffer recently spent weeks digging into a technology company, visiting engineering departments and interviewing executives to ferret out the…
News Media News: Gracia Martone, Jeff Ballou and David Fahrenthold
TEGNA Inc. president and CEO Gracia Martore was honored with a CEO Lifetime Achievement Award from the Washington Business Journal. Martore was presented the…
Washington Post Marketing Itself as Testing Ground for Video Ads, States Adweek
One year ago, the Washington Post decided it was done working with third-party ad-tech partners and instead started building its own slick…
Top-Three Cable Choices for Millennials are ESPN, Adult Swim and AMC
Millennials watch less traditional television than their older counterparts, and that’s true for cable as well as broadcast, where the top networks among…
ANA has New System to Tell if Ads Need More Gender Equity
“Are your TV ads or the shows where you advertise defective in the way they portray women? The Association of National Advertisers has a…
Washington Post Named Hottest Digital Publication of Year by Adweek
The Washington Post has been named Hottest Digital Publication of the year by Adweek, reports The Post. The Post stated that “According to Adweek,…
Sean Hannity Tops Observer List of Hosts Making the Most
“Though journalists are increasingly being attacked as partisan hacks, held in lower esteem in many polls than even members of Congress, the cream of…
Trump May Have Handed the Media an “Economic Lifeline”, Reports Vanity Fair
As they covered the presidential campaign, “many journalists occasionally lamented a dark secret of their own: Trump’s candidacy had obfuscated the line between…
Gwen Ifill, “One Of The Most Prominent TV Anchors Of Her Generation,” Dead at 61
Gwen Ifill, who wrote for some of the country’s premier newspapers before transitioning to broadcast journalism and making her greatest mark “as one…
TEGNA Launches Premion
McLean, Va-based TEGNA Inc. launched Premion which, states a release, is “a first-in-market advertising services platform that offers local and regional…
