AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

The New York Times
The Onion News Network, a video series produced by the Onion fake-news empire, made a low-key debut a year ago. A near-perfect facsimile of a deadly serious cable broadcast, it brazenly courted brand confusion with CNN. A graphic display in glinting shades of steel introduced a commanding anchorman, rouged correspondents and no [...]

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Business Week…
Since 2006, Khoi Vinh has been the design director of NYTimes.com, where he and his staff of information architects and designers are responsible for the look and feel of the Times’s website. On his blog, Subtraction.com, he addresses key questions about web standards and the marriage of design and technology. Last fall, Vinh and [...]

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peabody.uga.edu
Athens, Ga. – Thirty-five recipients of the 67th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia`s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for 2007, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the UGA campus.
The latest [...]

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Forbes Plans 400-Member Financial Ad Network; Viacom Forming Ad Nets For Music, Male Lifestyle - paidContent.org
Forbes Inc. has ambitious plans for an ad network with about 400 financial blogs as members, according to AP. The financial news media company is expected to release more details about its Forbes’ Business and Financial Blog Network on Monday, [...]

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Guy Kawasaki: New Mini-Media Mogul? - Red Herring
Guy Kawasaki, Apple’s former mega-evangelist and well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur, announced on Tuesday the launch of his second media startup, Alltop, at the music and geek gathering in Austin, Texas, known as South by Southwest.
The debut of the Alltop news and blog aggregation site comes a year after [...]

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Is PBS Still Necessary? - The New York Times
For the eighth straight year the Bush administration has ritually proposed taking a hefty whack out of the federal subsidy for public broadcasting. The cuts would in effect slice in half the money that public television and public radio get from the government. If we follow the [...]

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Computation + Journalism = ? - Idea Lab
When the Knight News Challenge awarded me (and the Medill School of Journalism) a grant to offer journalism scholarships to computer programmers, I thought teaching journalism to technologists was a pretty novel idea. But it turns out some faculty at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing were thinking [...]

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Media Work Force Sinks to 15-Year Low - Advertising Age
Newspaper Slump and the Shift to Digital, Direct Take Toll on Employment
Get out of media. Get into marketing.
U.S. media employment in December fell to a 15-year low (886,900), slammed by the slumping newspaper industry. But employment in advertising/marketing-services — agencies and other firms that [...]

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The Best of BAVC 2007: Creative Programming - Bay Area Video Coalition
As Director of Creative Programming, the focus of my attention is bringing the most promising stories and media makers, new media projects and video archives into the world of BAVC; and creating partnerships and programs that impact the field of public media and independent [...]

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Los Angeles Times Launches Free Weekly - Advertising Age
Metromix Los Angeles Born Out of Website
Sam Zell’s Los Angeles Times has introduced its first stand-alone print weekly, a culture and nightlife freebie — one that was reverse-engineered from a Times website that went live last summer.
The new tabloid and the site, both called Metromix Los Angeles, [...]

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