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Here at Beet.TV, we have been keeping a close eye on innovative online video journalism emanating from newspapers.  We have seen extraordinary work from The Washington Post, The New York Times and others.

The BBC sat down with Bill and Melinda Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for a 14-minute video interview today, during which the couple discussed foreign aid and the economy.

HANOVER, NH — Through intentional or mistaken breaches, hospitals and insurers are allowing a large amount of private medical data onto P2P networks such as Gnutella and Limewire, according to a report just released by M. Eric Johnson, an expert in cybersecurity and privacy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  The paper will […]

The English service of broadcast network Al Jazeera saw a 600 percent increase in worldwide viewership of its website’s streaming footage during the conflict in Gaza, The Associated Press reports.

When Microsoft Office releases its web applications into beta this year, it has a good shot of surpassing Google Docs right off the bat: The mainstream reliance on Microsoft Office makes Microsoft web apps a natural extension.

The New York Times has been providing resources and visibility around its online video, and the audience appears to be substantial, with  some 544,000 unique visitors in December, according to numbers provided to Beet.TV by Nielsen Online.

Checking out the new White House blog, we saw the YouTube clip of the President Barack Obama’s  Inauguration speech. Looks good.  But we wonder if all the White House videos will be hosted by YouTube.

Akamai, the world's largest private global computer network, which provides distribution services to many of the world's news organizations, had record traffic today during the speech of Barack Obama. Total traffic on the Akamai network surpassed a rate of more than 2 terabits per second at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET.  Akamai also delivered over 12,000,000 […]

Here is the live stream of CBS News continuous coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama.  View this as full screen  — hit the rectangular icon in the control box.  Looks great. This player was created by CNET and is not the player for CBS News.  CNET is a unit of CBS Interactive. — Andy […]

Get the CNN Live News widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Here is the CNN.com Live feed of the Inauguration of Barack Obama. We have embedded the live video widget. The player requires a small client download which takes just s few seconds. On Beet.TV, we are also hosting the live streams […]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy For several of the biggest TV news operations, this will be an Inauguration to share, literally.  Over the past year, most of the major broadcast news operations have made a decision to provide a sharable embed code which allows smaller Web publishers and […]

Consumption of news and politics videos on YouTube increased by over 500 percent last year, according to Olivia Ma, News Specialist. Olivia made these comments at the YouTube news media conference in Washington last Monday.  Surely the Olympics and the presidential campaign were key drivers.  The Associated Press, the world's largest media organization, has been […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — CNN.com leads the news business in the live streaming of news events. From its home page, visitors are offered the choice of four different live streams. In 2008, the network provided 83 million individual streams, a CNN.com spokesperson told Beet.TV

Video search engine Truveo has released an updated version of its  iPhone application, Beet.TV has learned. The application, first launched in July, allows users to access videos in Apple-friendly formats from major sites including CNN, NBC, HBO, The Discovery Channel, and YouTube. In November, I interviewed CEO Peter Kocks about the then-forthcoming updates, and he […]

Demand for bandwidth dramatically spiked immediately after the first reports of the emergency landing of a U.S. Airways jet in New York Hudson river.  Shortly before 5:00 p.m. EST, demand for bandwidth  to view the event live online hit nearly 5 million demands per second, according to records of Akamai, the world's largest content delivery […]

The sinking US Airways plane in Hudson River makes compelling live online video.  Here is the CNN.com coverage.  You will need to download a small application.  (This still image was taken at 4:11 EST) CNN.com has been leading the online media industry with live streaming of news events.  This will certainly be among the most […]

Thomson Reuters' metadata generation service Calais will now allow users to automatically integrate their content with Linked Data assets like Wikipedia, the company announced today on their blog. "With 9,000 of you processing 1+ million documents a day, it was time to take Calais to the next level," Krista Thomas writes.

Video SEO EveryZing will power search and discovery for Revision3, the digital web studio created by Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, the company announced today. Andy interviewed CEO Tom Wilde in the Beet offices last month about the company's speech-to-text technology, which creates rich, searchable metadata for videos. 

WASHINGTON, D.C.  On Sunday night at American University, YouTube recognized the five finalists and winner in the Project Report competition, a new journalism award for short video documentaries. Co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center, the assignment was for "non-professional" video journalists to report on underreported communities.

We were pleased to read this past weekend in The Wall Street Journal that our friends at Iron Horse Vineyards were cited by Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher as one of the two best U.S. sparkling wine makers. The story is a guide to buying domestic “Champagne” or sparkling wine to celebrate Tuesday’s Inauguration of […]