Media

Huggy Bear Gets His Own Show

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

My second-favorite Republican (after MediaLizzy “Hackney,” of course) is getting his own show on Fox:
Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee announced on his Web site that he has a new show debuting 8 p.m. EDT Saturday and Sunday on the Fox News Channel.
The show is simply titled “Huckabee,” he said.
“I’m sure the name will make [...]

E&P: Breaking Through to the Text Message Generation

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Today I address something I’ve been contemplating for weeks: the way teens and younger millennials relate to mobile media more than their older counterparts. Kudos to USC’s Karen North and Celebrifantasy.com’s Marc Mitchell for pitching in on the column:
From a business perspective, it appears to be a home run. Despite the collapse and resurrection of [...]

Politico: Reporters Have No Access on Campaign Trail

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Politico has an interesting story today on how news orgs are apparently wasting big bucks traveling with Obama and McCain to limited results:
“Not only do the reporters have little interaction with the candidates, but increasingly they are having little impact on the broad campaign narratives and daily story lines that supply most voters with their [...]

MSNBC, HuffPost Traffic Spikes

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 16, 2008 ⋅ One comment

With numbers like this from Nielsen Online, the online CPMs are bound to increase at a sharper rate than has previously been predicted (thanks, Editor & Publisher):
Brand — Aug. ‘08 Unique Audience (000) — Aug. ‘07 Unique Audience (000)
MSNBC Digital Network — 52,212 — 29,564
Yahoo! News — 40,787 — 34,277
CNN Digital Network — 38,821 — [...]

E&P: News Orgs Should Capitalize on Young Voter Enthusiasm

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A new study from Medill’s Media Management Center details recommendations to news organizations on how to harness enthusiasm for the presedential election into loyal young news consumers. I weigh in, and also talk with The Nation’s Ari Melber and Congressional Quarterly’s Andrew Satter.
“The thing that stood out most to me in the study was the [...]

Editor & Publisher: Can Entertainment and Social Media Be Considered News?

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I received an overwhelming “No!” response to last week’s column, so this week I challenged that assumption a bit deeper.
“The journalism-school side of my brain was inclined to agree with [the reader] because certainly one can defiine as, say, an A1 story about Iraq from the New York Times or a report on the recession [...]

Post-Convention Wrap Up: Our Responsibility to Help Barack Achieve His Vision

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

When I watched Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 convention from my then-apartment in Chicago, tears streaming down my face because someone had finally articulated what it should mean to be an American citizen, like everyone else I thought: “This guy should be President.” To be sitting four years later at his electrifying acceptance speech [...]

Hybrid Media Love Fest at HuffPost Luncheon

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A cast of entertainment, media and political heavyweights discussed the role of new media in the 2008 election this afternoon. Moderated by Charlie Rose, the lineup included Rahm Emanuel, George Stephanopoulos, WaPost’s Katharine Weymouth, Will.i.am, YouTube’s Chad Hurley and the guy who plays Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live.
While a lot of the usual arguments [...]