<sarcasm> About time someone pivoted to video. </sarcasm> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> When Mark Thompson, who was credited with finally finding a way for the > NYT to successfully reinvent itself as an internet business, was hired to > run CNN 18 months ago, word was he was going to similarly reinvent CNN. > Then pretty much nothing happened. > > Now it has. > > This morning CNN announced it was cutting 200 jobs, mostly from linear > operations, and would be adding about the same to its digital side, about > 100 over next 6 months. Zaz is investing $70M in a new subscription > streaming CNN service, and some kind of unspecified subscription > “Lifestyle” (food, fitness, health travel, etc) service, which was the > finger print of what Thompson did at NYT. Of course I don’t watch CNN when > it’s basically free for me now, so not sure why I would pay to watch some > kind of “almost CNN” online. > > They seem to be very excited about adding hundreds of “vertical videos” > every day, which I guess are like the videos on I Seagram that they want > you to scroll through addictively (We got a Goldendoodle puppy 6 months > ago, so most of my Instagram videos are about dogs, and they do sometimes > trap me for 15 minutes scrolling thru them). Not sure if that will work > with Wolf Blitzer. > > One consequence of focusing on brief, scrollable news videos for breaking > news content is actual fact checking has been minimized. As the NYT > reported: > > “getting those videos published has been slowed at times by CNN’s review > process, known as the Triad, which used to include fact-checking and > standards and legal vetting….Last year, Mr. Thompson moved fact-checking, > formerly known as the Row, into a new unit called CNN Fact Check that works > closer with editors and producers earlier in the story-generation process.” > > As Brian Stelter pointed out in his Newsletter this morning on the same > story, we are now seeing the decade long “reshaping” of linear news turning > into a “revolution “. NBC and ABC News are expected to announce similar > changes to their operations soon. > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/media/cnn-layoffs-mark-thompson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare > > https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1737637981000fd2c87f5e074/raw > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKMe%3DYHds8v5V8A%2BJfCdgcnWz51DDtd8RHg0aTJTbP84w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKMe%3DYHds8v5V8A%2BJfCdgcnWz51DDtd8RHg0aTJTbP84w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bfb2K%2BX4tOj3A8NdjnanadLDur1UwYp0UibJspRXGDp2g%40mail.gmail.com.
