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Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 7:43am on Monday, January 25th, 2010

MSNBC is boosting its social media presence with help from a 20-year-old news junkie in the Netherlands.

Forbes.com reported on January 25, 2010:

"After months of plotting strategy to move into social media, MSNBC.com found the right man to help: 20-year-old Michael van Poppel, a Dutch media maven with a newsfeed on Twitter.

Michael van Who? The choice isn't as odd as it seems. Three years ago, from an apartment in Tilburg, the Netherlands, Van Poppel launched a Twitter feed called "BreakingNews." Trawling the Web for arcane but reliable news sources, he aggregated them onto his feed, linking to breaking headlines in Europe and around the world.

Twitter was but a year old and Van Poppel just 17 at the time, but the novel idea drew an overnight following. BreakingNews' first major scoop, to the astonishment of the European news establishment, was Van Poppel's acquisition of a videotape carrying a statement from Osama bin Laden. How did a Dutch teen with a Twitter feed get hold of a Bin Laden tape? "It came to me from a source within the U.S. government," is all Van Poppel will say."

The full story:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/24/twitter-msnbc-tillinghast-business-media-breakingnews.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 1:46pm on Friday, January 22nd, 2010

January 19, 2010: Gresham Striegel is now executive producer at MSNBC. He was previously senior producer of Glenn Beck at Fox News.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 3:21pm on Thursday, January 14th, 2010

MSNBC President Discusses Dogfight with CNN, Feud with Fox

The Wrap reported on January 5, 2010:

"We blew it. I think we blew most of it. Only in 2006, 2007 did we start to come into our own.

When cable news started, we did a lot of crime. There was O.J., the Clinton scandal, then the 2000 election, then 9/11. Then things really changed. After 9/11 things got a lot more political. At the end of the decade, we found a voice in Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. And Rachel Maddow has been a huge addition. But it took most of it to get a better sense of identity.

We’re coming off [2008] our best year ever. Overall, our numbers are down a little bit, but we expected that after the election. We projected that. And we reached our goals in terms of advertising. And we beat CNN. That was the headline.

Look, Fox loves to attack us. And loves to attack our parent company. I don’t like the word “truce.” Do we talk about tone? Absolutely. They say things about us that are wrong, and we correct them, get the facts straight.

And some of the things they said were outrageous, by the way. And just wrong. We won’t forget that."

The full story:
http://www.thewrap.com/article/msnbc-president-phil-griffin-grilled-12179

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:59pm on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

January 5, 2010 -- MSNBC announced that it has acquired BreakingNews.com from PV Media:

"The latest addition to the msnbc Digital Network will focus on up-to-the-second news coverage from multiple sources, executives of the company said.

"It's a different experience for news users, rather than any kind of diminishment for msnbc.com," Charles Tillinghast, president of the msnbc Digital Network, said in an interview. The move is "consistent with our strategy of creating different news experiences for different user interests," he said.

The full story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34694904/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/