High tech hall of fame

For our latest archival potpouri segment on Y! News 60 Minutes – with footage of a number of profiles of tech titans – we included a small, unofficial poll of who our readers most think should be in a high tech hall of fame. Bill Gates came out the winner of that poll, followed closely [...]

JFK anniversary

. . . we continue to see very strong interest in searches for JFK conspiracy theories.
I published today a Yahoo! News special package that combines 60 Minutes stories from throughout the years that are related to the JFK assassination. This is a very interesting package, because it not only takes a look at some of [...]

Stunning allegations against the White House

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is accusing President Bush and Vice President Cheney of direct responsibility in misleading the public over whether White House aides leaked the name of former CIA operative Valerie Plame to the press.
The story is the second most viewed right now on Yahoo! News. And we also have [...]

The media ownership problem

Media conglomeration affects a lot, of course, but over and over, the members of the public who spoke, spoke of homogenized news – and more specifically – the quality of local news.
This is a story that hits home for me, since I work in the news media. One of the latest reports on PBS’s [...]

Blogworld and the rest of the world

Last week, I was at a conference of bloggers in Las Vegas known as the Blogworld Expo, attended by a cross-section of Internet professionals and amateurs – as well as the peripheral professionals such as marketers and public relations agents who deal with bloggers.
It seemed that one thing everyone had in common was that [...]

Pakistan in crisis

Title image of a Yahoo! News Interactive feature on the unrest in Pakistan, originally uploaded by nova_safo.

Today, Yahoo! News launched a new partnership with Public Radio International’s (PRI’s) flagship news program “The World.” The program will be providing Yahoo! News with audio from stories they air, and we will be using that audio to create [...]

Animals or people?

We had an interesting phenomenon a couple of weeks ago, during our coverage of the devastating Southern California wildfires.
On one day, I produced an interactive on evacuees who were staying at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. On the next day, I produced an interactive on animals who were being sheltered due to the fires. [...]