After preparing for some time to rely only on its own resources, CNN will not use any photos, videos or newswire reports from the AP, as the cable news network said. Three years ago, CNN dropped Reuters (NYSE: TRI) following a 27-year relationship as way to cut costs. In a…

Two weeks ago, CNN International was reprimanded by Ofcom because its CNN YouTube Debate on Climate Change programme broke rules barring sponsorship of news programmes and product placement. Just two weeks later, the UK media regulator is again warning the network on a near identical charge. It says Skype’s sponsorship…

It’s the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit now, but the two-day conference is still at the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Building. CNN President Jon Klein led off in a Q&A with Bloomberg BW Editor Josh Tyrangiel, talking about the magic—and often illusory—word “synergy.” Klein talked about the ties that the Time Inc.…

The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business—so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw says that half the FT’s print customers are newsstand buyers, and the company needs to offer an similar a la carte option online as well. Grimshaw, in an interview with…

I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Katie Couric interview Jeff Bewkes and Les Moonves. Among the other questions, an audience member asked about the low ratings of CNN, compared to Fox and…

Twitter isn’t the only social media/web-based tool to “democratize” the flow of information, but it has certainly sped up the way that news—not to mention rumors, scams and other potentially discreditable info—is disseminated. At the 140Conf, Arianna Huffington, Peter Hirshberg, Al Seckel, KCDL’s Caprice Young and CNN’s Jon Kline discussed…

While *Dow Jones* follows through with plans to convert some of its iPhone and BlackBerry free app users to paid subscribers, CNN is jumping right into the premium market—although in a small way. The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) cable news network is charging a one-time $2 fee for the CNN…

If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched for newspapers and online, is already tinkering with its business model a few months after its launch: it has launched a text-only online store, at CNNWireStore.com, to…

Updated: The Michael Jackson memorial service has come and gone, and some of the preliminary stats on online viewing, streaming and social media activity have come in. First up is Facebook, which reports that roughly one million users tuned in through its Live Stream box across CNN, E! Online, *MTV*…

Facebook introduced two features Wednesday that should better position the social networking site as a source of real-time information on the web. One lets users make their updates accessible to anyone online if they wish, while the other enables outside sites to feature a relevant stream of updates from Facebook…

There will be no shortage of places online to experience Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration and the attendant festivities. Rex Hammock has created an open post on his blog to list coverage he finds particularly notable. NYT’s Bits Blog also has a rundown of some of the options. —YouTube has created…

Even though CNN.com keeps users on its site longer than competitor MSNBC.com, more than half of CNN.com’s visitors drop in to see one page and bounce right out, according to an incredibly long article about CNN.com in the Sunday New York Times. One goal for new GM K. C. Estenson:…

As CNN prepares to go head-to-head with the Associated Press when it launches its new wire service, the cable news outfit will have to prove to newspaper editors that it can transfer its cable TV credibility to breaking print news. A long piece in the NYT takes a look at…

We missed this late last month during our conferences, but worth pointing out still: CNN is preparing to reveal more details of its much-discussed news wire service with editors of various newspapers this December in a three-day editors confab, reported E&P. Last year in summer, CNN ended its 27-year relationship…

Yes, it is true: Jessica Yellin, the CNN reporter who is in Chicago following the Obama camp, was beamed in “via hologram” technology live into the CNN studios, and here she is, below, talking to Wolf Blitzer. Their rationale: easier this way than the thousands of screaming fans in the…

Friday morning, a number of people jumped on an unverified report that showed up on CNN’s cit j channel iReport.com claiming—erroneously, as it quickly turned out—that Steve Jobs had a heart attack. Never mind that the site clearly bills material as unedited and unfiltered. SAI, among others, connected the words…

An interesting take on webcasts between commercials, something CNN has been doing recently during Anderson Cooper’s AC360 daily news program on the news channel. CNN’s Erica Hill has been webcasting takes in between the show segments, and Cooper has been encouraging viewers to go to the website during commercial breaks…

Kenneth “KC” Estenson is leaving his post as VP, digital media at Disney-ABC Cable Networks Group to join CNN.com as SVP/GM in September, a rep for the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) owned CNN.com said. Estenson fills the vacancy left by David Payne, who we reported left the post back in…

See update below A perennial favorite resurfaces… NYT is reporting that CBS and CNN are in talks to combine their news operations, though the nature of the agreement or the seriousness of the talks is unclear. One version of the agreement would have CBS keep a few star reporters, like…