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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CNN makes citizen journalists - The Hollywood Reporter
Net launches iReport site for user-generated news
Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement in August 2006 with the launch of its iReport initiative, the news organization has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers, including nearly 10,000 this January alone. Yet fewer than 10% of those [...]

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ICTV Creates Clickable TV Channels - NewTeeVee
While Interactive TV company ICTV cut the ribbon on its new office in San Jose, Calif., yesterday, don’t call it a startup. ICTV’s been trying to bridge the gap between the web video experience and TV for 10 years already.
What’s really cool is that ICTV enables content providers to [...]

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