Helium Gives Authors Ability to “Quick Accept” Assignments, Offers Other Platform Changes

Helium Gives Authors Ability to “Quick Accept” Assignments, Offers Other Platform Changes

Helium on Wednesday made it easier for users to bulk accept and withdraw from assignements by clicking multiple check box and choosing the “Accept” or “Withdraw” buttons. The system is meant to spur more use among Helium users, however they […]

YouTube, Music Publishers Group Settle Copyright Lawsuit

YouTube, Music Publishers Group Settle Copyright Lawsuit

A legal battle between YouTube and the National Music Publishers Association that began in United States District Court in Manhattan in 2007 over copyright infringement has finally been settled. The suit was brought by the NMPA and several other parties- […]

Chris Rovzar Leaves New York Magazine, Takes Over Vanity Fair Web Operations

Chris Rovzar Leaves New York Magazine, Takes Over Vanity Fair Web Operations

Chris Rovzar has left his post as the senior online editor at New York Magazine after four years, he will now take over as editor of Vanity Fair’s Web operations. Rovzar has been a big presence at New York’s Daily Intel […]

AOL Huffington Post Media Group Launches HuffPost Small Business Section

AOL Huffington Post Media Group Launches HuffPost Small Business Section

Another day, another website launch by AOL Huffington Post Group, this time the company has launched HuffPost Small Business which they promise will deliver interactive hubs for Entrepreneurs, Real-Time News, Video, Analysis and Community engagement, all fairly standard fare for […]

‘New York Times’ Leans on Twitter During 40-Minute Outage

‘New York Times’ Leans on Twitter During 40-Minute Outage

America’s paper of record went down for an interminable 40-minutes Tuesday night, displaying a 404 error to readers who attempted to access the New York Times’ home page. The old media stalwart used a newer form of technology to address the […]

BBC Worldwide Sells Off Print Mags to Focus on Digital

BBC Worldwide Sells Off Print Mags to Focus on Digital

BBC Worldwide, the public broadcaster’s commercial wing, has agreed to sell its portfolio of magazines to private equity firm Exponent in a deal totaling about $200 million, or about £120 million. Radio Times, olive and Gardens Illustrated were included in the sale, as well […]

MediaNews Group Puts Up Paywalls for 23 Newspapers

MediaNews Group Puts Up Paywalls for 23 Newspapers

Even more newspapers are adopting the New York Times’ paywall structure in the US following the Gray Lady’s adoption of the free-to-paid content scale earlier this year and its moderate success. On Tuesday, 23 newspapers in 11 states began operating under […]

Infographic: YouTube Town Hall By The Numbers

Infographic: YouTube Town Hall By The Numbers

YouTube launched YouTube Town Hall a couple of months ago and have released the first data from its ongoing political experiment. (via YouTube Blog)

38% of YouTube Visitors Watched Vevo Content in July

38% of YouTube Visitors Watched Vevo Content in July

Analysis of traffic on YouTube in July reveals that music videos are a big driver of visits for the video site, with one provider’s content watched by nearly 40% of visitors last month. Vevo, a joint venture between Sony, Universal […]

KQED Public Radio Teams Up With Huffington Post San Francisco And HyperLocal News Provider J-Lab

KQED Public Radio Teams Up With Huffington Post San Francisco And HyperLocal News Provider J-Lab

San Francisco’s KQED public radio has announced a new partnership with Huffington Post San Francisco that will give the radio network the ability to feature the sites content on their radio shows and station website. The station has also announced […]

Netflix Launches Kids Section For Streaming Video on the Web

Netflix Launches Kids Section For Streaming Video on the Web

Netflix streaming is a really kid (and, let’s face it, parent) friendly feature, allowing children to select and stream a ton of child-friendly content to laptops, iPods and via devices like the Wii. However, littler kids especially could have difficulty […]

Yahoo! India Announces Free Advertiser Supported Bollywood Movies From Movieplex

Yahoo! India Announces Free Advertiser Supported Bollywood Movies From Movieplex

Forget streaming movies to your Netflix account, if you’re a fan of Bollywood movies you can now log into Yahoo! India’s Movieplex service and watch your favorite full-length Bollywood movies from leading studios and you can do it for free! […]

Digital News Veteran Jim Brady Named Editor-In-Chief By Journal Register Company

Digital News Veteran Jim Brady Named Editor-In-Chief By Journal Register Company

Digital news veteran Jim Brady has been named as editor-in-chief of the Journal Register Company, making the company the newest print organization to shift their focus to online publishing. Under his tutelage Brady will control publications in New York, Vermont, […]

P&G Inks Deal With Bauer Media, Old Media Receives New Media Advertising

P&G Inks Deal With Bauer Media, Old Media Receives New Media Advertising

When we talk about old media on Medacity we typically talk about how publications are coming into the New Media age, launching websites, improving the reach of archaic websites they already own, and so on, however sometimes it’s new media […]