Book Excerpt: Who’s Selling, Who’s Buying, Who’s Counting
Verklin/Kanner Book Takes a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Constantly Changing Landscape of Media Advertising
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Demand Media Offers Pay-for-Play
Startup Channels Share of Revenue to Users Who Create Personalized Sites
VideoJug Bottles One-Stop Shopping
Schankowitz Builds Online Repository of Self-Help Shorts
CBC: Why We Fight
The producers list for “Why We Fight,” the Peabody-winning documentary on the United States military-industrial complex, runs to more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to the United Kingdom’s BBC, Estonia’s ETV and numerous European broadcasters. Conspicuously…
IFC: Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet
In IFC’s documentary short series “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet,” 10-year-old Mohamed Sidibay talks about how he escaped life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In the film he’s a fourth-grader who likes to play soccer,…
Ad Buyers on NBC: Wait ‘Til Next Year
Exec Shift Should Not Affect This Upfront
Magic Lantern Productions, Channel 4: Fourdocs Web Site
Documentaries are enjoying a renaissance these days, at least on cable and in theatrical release, but that wasn’t the case a few years back in Great Britain when the concept of the Web site FourDocs (www.channel4.com/fourdocs) was formed. There was…
Guest Commentary: Time to Differentiate Harmful From Harmless
I am not thrilled by the politically controlled Federal Communications Commission and the rules that it has either implemented or wishes to have available to implement. I support the notion instilled in me as a child, which I have modified…
Digital Dealmakers: Ted Briscoe
The player: Ted Briscoe, CEO of Vibe Solutions, parent company of video service Pyro.TV The play: Vibe Solutions recently introduced Pyro.TV, a site that organizes, aggregates and syndicates Web video. Online video creators can pair up with Pyro.TV via its…
PBS: American Masters: Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Filmmaker Ric Burns says it’s a good thing he really liked artist Andy Warhol, the subject of his Peabody-winning film, “because otherwise I’d be really irritated right now.” The four-hour profile “Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film” aired in two parts…