Convergence

The mainstream media are under pressure, their future cloudy as people turn to a wider and more diverse variety of sources for their news. But from his perch on the third floor of CBS's San Francisco offices, news veteran Larry Kramer isn't worried. As the recently named president of CBS Digital Media, the network's Internet division, Kramer is quickly reshaping CBS' news and entertainment...

Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, or so goes the old saw. For decades, the famous and the infamous alike largely followed this advice. Even when subjects of news stories felt they had been misunderstood or badly treated, they were unlikely to take on reporters or publishers, believing that the power of the press gave the press the final word. The Internet, and especially...

SHANGHAI: World leading communications solution provider Siemens will launch a massive campaign to tap into the business of digital television over the Internet, known as IPTV, in the Chinese market. Senior executives announced here on Wednesday that the German company will enhance its investment and research and development capabilities to develop and localize its IPTV technology and services in...

USA Today will be merging its newspaper and online newsrooms, USA Today President and Publisher Craig Moon and USATODAY.com Senior Vice President and Publisher Jeff Webber announced on Tuesday. USA TODAY Editor Ken Paulson announced that USATODAY.com Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Kinsey Wilson had been promoted to Executive Editor of USA TODAY, joining current Executive Editor John Hillkirk...

Suppose your industry controlled 11 of the top 25 news and information websites, and was the dominant online information source in most of the country's biggest 75 markets. You drew nearly a third of all U.S. Internet users. Of your online customers 44 percent were younger than 34 and earned over $50,000. Your Internet audience -- alongside the 75 million adults who buy your off-line output every...

For those who love newspapers - to read them, write them and rail at them - these are somber times. Metropolitan dailies face rising costs, falling share prices and declining circulation - 2.6 percent in the last six months alone. American papers have shed more than 1,900 jobs since the beginning of the year, industry publication Editor & Publisher reports. The mammoth Knight Ridder Corp., which...

DULLES/BURBANK, November 14: America Online and sister company Warner Bros. have announced In2TV, an Internet service that will let users watch for free full-length episodes from old television shows in a resolution approaching DVD quality. Set for launch in early 2006, In2TV will offer thousands of episodes from TV classics like Welcome back Kotter, Sisters, Beetlejuice, La Femme Nikita and...

CBS is having a terrific autumn. As a result, you're going to see more advertising. The network's "CSI" has been the top-rated show among all networks and all viewers so far this season, with "CSI: Miami" and "Without a Trace" occupying two of the other top five slots. Overall, the network is No. 1 among viewers 18 to 49, the age group most sought after by advertisers. Last May, those advertisers...

AOL NEWS HAS ADDED CBS Digital Media video and text news to its content mix, the two companies said Wednesday. Although CBS, like AOL, is making an aggressive push to drive traffic to its own Web sites, the branding potential of the deal was enough to outweigh any CBS concerns that the arrangement helps a rival gain eyeballs. "As opposed to traditional, the Web lives and thrives in shades of gray...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Richard D. Parsons, chairman-CEO of Time Warner, today told a gathering here of media mavens and politicos that although he could not make the Time Warner-America Online merger work, he still feels the convergence of traditional media and the Internet is inevitable. "We are the only media company with a major stake in the Internet," Mr. Parsons said. But talks are in early...