Andy Plesser

Topix has citizens uploading 4 millions of comments per month in forums in some 5,000 towns in the United States, generating 8 million monthly unique visitors and gettting $4 CPM’s, according to CEO Tolles in this interview with Beet.TV

For broadcasters seeking to provide a high quality live stream, untethered to an Internet connection and a PC, Livestream has just introduced a device from Teradek called the Cube.

Prague-based, KIT Digital has done the year’s biggest online video industry roll-up with its  $77 million purchase of New York-based KickApps, Kyte in San Francisco and Paris-based Kewego.

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned today in the wake of a fundraising scandal. 

On a freezing Manhattan night in February, virtually all of the media industry’s top reporters, blogger and editors showed up for drinks with a newly arrived California woman who was unknown just a few months earlier.

The New York offices of Next New Networks erupted in jubilation shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Monday when news was published of the the company’s acquisition by the YouTube.

NEW YORK – Next New Networks, the innovative studio and incubator for entertainment video programming for the Web, has been acquired by Google and will be part of YouTube. 

FreeWheel, the big video advertising technology solution provider used by 80 big publishers, is expanding its offering with a new service to allow publishers to manage pay-per-view and subscription services. 

Chris Anderson, "curator" of TED has announced the winners of the 10 best "Ads Worth Spreading". 

The introduction of tablets and smart phones has driven extraordinary growth in digital news consumption.  According to Robert Grimshaw, Managing Director of the the FT.com, approximately forty-five percent of digital news is now consumed via mobile devices.

Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Web video index platform Clicker, has been named president of CBS Interactive, the company announced today.

As the Huffington Post merges with AOL, the company will leave its successful brands to operate as independent entities.  Arianna Huffington, who will be editorial chief of the new company, tells Beet.TV in this video that she "won't mess" with successful AOL properties including TechCrunch and Engadget.

As it readies for the debut of the Keith Olbermann show, Current TV is building a studio in Manhattan, says co-founder Joel Hyatt in this interview with Beet.TV.

With the imminent role for Arianna Huffington as editorial chief of AOL, she will be "smart enough" to leave TechCrunch and its editor Michael Arrington alone, says Felix Salmon, finance blogger for Reuters and media pundit.

More and more publishers are moving videos from a video section "gallery" into article pages, and this move is bringing increased viewership, says Stokes Young, head of multimedia and Ann Derry, editorial director of video at The New York Times who comment in this segment from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit held last month at […]

While the ability of editors to identify and define news is essential, the creation of news is increasingly driven by real-time analytics, according to participants in the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit.

Integrated sponsorships are essential to the success of original news on the Web says Steven King, Editor of Video, for The Washington Post, in this clip from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit.

On Monday, Bloomberg West debuted, a daily, one-hour television program about the business of technology originating from in the company's new television studio in its San Francisco bureau.

Facebook pages are becoming increasingly video rich and an increasing number of small and large video publishers are streaming more of their videos “in-line,” meaning having their player on Facebook pages, not just providing links.

The power of Apps for video news producers is profound, allowing them to “reinvent” themselves to consumers says CNN.com’s Mike Toppo, Senior Director for News Operations in this segment from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit at The Washington Post earlier this month.