Links on Twitter: USA Today’s Newsdeck, ESPN’s pre-roll ads on YouTube, MetaFilter’s 10th birthday

By Twitter July 14, 2009, 10:36 p.m.

USA Today plays a wildcard with Newsdeck, a new interface for their content http://tr.im/shsU How do you like it? »

Call it the Skirmish Near UMich: Vibrant competition for eyeballs, advertisers among Ann Arbor news sites http://tr.im/siTb »

The founder of wildly popular @BreakingNews is 19 years old… and once sold a bin Laden tape to Reuters http://tr.im/skmj »

ESPN brings pre-roll ads to YouTube with its new channel and custom player. An example: http://tr.im/sir7 »

TMZ, which just brought its ad sales in-house, has annual revenues estimated at $15m, similar to Politico http://tr.im/sh7J »

Good morning, and happy 10th birthday to MetaFilter! Here’s a great piece on the web’s conversation leader http://tr.im/sh3W »

POSTED July 14, 2009, 10:36 p.m.

PART OF A SERIES Twitter

Show tags

TWITTER FACEBOOK EMAIL

Andrew Deck

Dow Jones negotiates AI usage agreements with nearly 4,000 news publishers

Earlier this year, the WSJ owner sued Perplexity for failing to properly license its content. Now its research tool Factiva has negotiated its own AI licensing deals.

Joshua Benton

There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them)

It may be too late for @edwardrmurrow.cbsnews.com, @huntersthompson.rollingstone.com, or @mikewallace.60minutes.com, but today’s reporters have another way to prove who they are on the rapidly growing social network.

Sarah Scire

Tuning out TV news might be behind the decline in media trust. (No, really!)

But: “Does falling trust cause people to change their media use, or do changing media habits cause lower trust?”