Here’s a little lighthearted story for your Friday. During a segment Friday about emoji — those illustrative icons commonly found in iPhone and other devices — the “Today Show” featured guests from Fast Company who “emoji-ed” parts of the show. Our favorite was a rather fanciful recreation of Carson Daly in the Orange Room, the […]
CNN has launched “Scenes from the Field,” a new feature that features an Instagram-like gallery to give its global team of journalists a way to share visual content taken from where they are. The site, located here, features a mix of old and new behind the scenes imagery taken by CNN crews. The idea, according […]
Industry publication Broadcasting & Cable has launched a redesigned website. The new website reflects the more classic look the publication has taken on over the past few years, mainly through the elegant serif typeface used in the “B&C” icon that now dominates the logo. That classic look is complemented with serif headlines and sans serif, […]
NBC plans to fold its female focused website iVillage into Today.com. Once a crown jewel in the NBC portfolio, iVillage has struggled to hold its audience both online and in two separate TV incarnations. NBC execs also have touted their desire to consolidate and streamline digital assets. iVillage Live, which premiered in 2006, was the […]
ESPN has released an update to its mobile app that aims to make personalization easier. The new SportsCenter app is a “reimagining” of the ScoreCenter app and also consolidated the functionality of numerous other apps, reports TechCrunch. In addition to allowing for access to video and stories, the new app allows users to specific favorite […]
WCPO-TV, the Scripps ABC affiliate in Cincinnati has announced plans to begin charging users to access certain parts of its website starting in January in what the station calls a first of its kind move to monetize digital content. The move follows the trend of newspapers putting their content behind so called “paywalls” that require […]
We noticed CNN.com has a created an interactive, parallax scrolling experience that documents the happenings at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The full screen interactive page allows the user to continually scroll down to access every photo while factoids and text are mixed in. The story makes use of advanced animation and scroll effects to create an […]
A select number of Gannett stations have debuted new websites that use the same look and feel as its parent company’s flagship newspaper USA Today. NewscastStudio noted back in October that Gannett switched its Rochester, N.Y. newspaper to the USA Today design and it appears the company’s television properties are heading in the same direction. The […]
MSNBC has relaunched its app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. The new app features a customizable user experience with live streaming, clips of select MSNBC programming and additional show content. For authenticated subscribers of participating cable, satellite and telco services, the new app offers live, real time streaming of MSNBC. Subscribers also have access to […]
NBC News has named Julian March senior vice president of editorial and innovation. March, currently director of online for ITV in the UK, will move to New York in early 2014 when he officially begins his new role, according to an announcement issued by Deborah Turness, president of NBC News. Reporting to Turness, March will […]
