Tag: CBS

  • The CBS Evening News business

    How would you fix a problem in TV News? Say, the Couric Evening News? Before you send in your running order and personnel tweaks, your graphics ideas and story suggestions remember you are a journalist not a network boss. This is how bosses think (my italics): Karmazin, the former chief of CBS (CBS), was asked…

  • Remember when CBS really stood for something?

    We come in peace, newslings.

  • Google pays for news?

    The Sunday Herald had a good little story: So, thanks to AFP, everyone is getting in on the act. (Update) In Wired, btw, Leslie Moonves explains the difference between promotional value and getting paid (contrast with the BBC’s ‘promotional’ YouTube deal): Wired: There’s a lot of CBS material on YouTube. How does that work? Moonves:…

  • The web is a 24/7 news environment…

    A day after Don Imus is fired by CBS, the Guardian brings us Alexander Chancellor‘s timely take on the story: Day late, dollar short? Someone needs to reread that Alan Rusbridger 24/7 memo. OK, cheap shot over.