But when it comes to the verdict, surely the reporter should rush to the live microphone or camera first — even if that means being beaten by a rival tweeter?
– BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on the BBC’s new guidelines that prohibit its reporters from breaking news on Twitter
Paul Sonne and Farnaz Fassihi, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 27, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Shohreh, a 37-year-old Iranian nurse, sat down with her husband and parents one night in September to watch a documentary about Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, scheduled to be shown on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s BBC Persian channel.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 21, 2011 at 5:51 am PT
No cats, or Pitbull, featured here. Just an hour and a half of people talking about physics genius Richard Feynman. (PS: Plenty of stuff like this all over YouTube, for free.)
Peter Kafka in Media on October 20, 2011 at 5:06 pm PT
The Singapore-based site, which provides crowd-sourced translations in more than 150 languages, lands a big round from SK Telecom, the BBC.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 14, 2011 at 8:54 am PT
In which the BBC gets very, very confused, to great comic effect. Watch!
Peter Kafka in Media on March 18, 2011 at 10:02 am PT
Netflix just made a huge leap by grabbing the exclusive rights to a TV show no one’s seen yet. And while it may not be a $100 million gamble, it’s a big one. But content chief Ted Sarandos insists it’s not huge shift in strategy.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 4, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
Cisco drops $95 million to bolster its video technology. It may be the start of another round of acquisitions by the networking giant.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 18, 2010 at 1:17 pm PT
It’s the weekend. You can take his advice and spare the time, right?
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 1, 2010 at 6:02 pm PT
The revamped $99 Apple TV streams content from online, computers and portable devices, and allows you to rent TV shows and movies, but has a very limited selection of Internet video sources.
Kara Swisher in News on May 5, 2010 at 11:28 pm PT
Say it ain’t
you, Yahoo.
And yet, here’s one of the major new conceptual directions of the troubled Internet giant’s next pricey marketing campaign, aimed at recovering from its first advertising foray, which is widely considered a failure: A full frontal attack on search leader Google.
In fact, it’s an odd attempt to mock the simple and elegant white box that allowed Google to steal Yahoo’s thunder many years back.
“There’s nothing to look at but a box and a button,” says the voice-over to the Yahoo commercial about an unnamed, but obvious, Web site. “When you look at this homepage nothing looks back at you.”
