The CNN App is now available for Blackberry users on the Z10 and Q10 in the U.S. Designed for Blackberry 10, the app showcases CNN’s global news resources through stories, photos and live and on-demand video. It also gives users access to CNN iReport, the network’s global participatory news community.
Users can personalize their app experience by choosing a U.S. or international news preference, reading stories they’ve saved for later – even when they’re offline and viewing the weather based on their location. Text stories and images can be shared directly from the app via email, Facebook and Twitter.
The CNN App for Blackberry is available for free at Blackberry’s App World.
London, 12th June 2013: Last night, CNN Digital journalist Edythe McNamee took home the Gaby Rado Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards for the web feature Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold. The Gaby Rado Award acknowledges emerging journalists who have covered national or international human rights stories in broadcast, online or print media.
Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold, a CNN Freedom Project feature, reveals the shocking extent of slavery in modern Mauritania. The judges remarked that the piece “broke new ground with a haunting, powerful story that needed to be told". FULL POST
A new cross-platform role and beat for CNN's new era
Award-winning digital journalist and television correspondent Kelly Wallace is returning to CNN this July as a Digital Correspondent and Editor-at-Large for CNN Digital, focusing on family, career and life. In this new digital-first position, Wallace will cover issues and interests of the modern woman - from family and parenting to the so-called work life balance.
"We are thrilled to welcome Kelly back to CNN," said CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker. "But this time she comes as a true multi-platform journalist, hired first and foremost to report for our strong digital assets. This move underscores our commitment to this space as clearly as ever. Kelly's journalistic pedigree, cross-platform approach to storytelling and passion for women’s issues make her the perfect person for this beat.”
BuzzFeed To Aggressively Expand Video Operation In Partnership With YouTube
BuzzFeed To Build Social Video Studio In Los Angeles
Link to the CNN Buzzfeed YouTube Channel
Link to the debut CNN BuzzFeed List is live on CNN.com
New York, NY – MAY 28, 2013 – Today, BuzzFeed announced plans to invest in and expand its video operations and build a social video studio, designed to create news and entertainment video content exclusively for YouTube. Led by Ze Frank, web video pioneer and BuzzFeed's Executive Vice President of Video, the video team will apply the same types of strategies that have made BuzzFeed a hub for some of the internet's most viral content to create shareable, emotionally compelling video content for a highly-mobile, video-driven generation.
"There has been a massive cultural shift in how people – particularly young people – consume news and entertainment and Ze and his team are tapping into the next generation of video production and consumption. Over 70% of BuzzFeed’s traffic is social, almost half is mobile, and we are seeing these huge shifts earlier than others because the majority of our readers are 18-34. We are thrilled to partner with YouTube to bring a new generation of video content to a BuzzFeed audience that lives on social media and mobile phones," said Jon Steinberg, BuzzFeed's President & COO.
CNN Digital nabbed four Society for Features Journalism Awards – including two first-place wins – which honor the craft of feature writing and the people who do it for a living at news organizations and wire services. The awards won are listed below:
1st place in Integrated Storytelling: The Undecided
1st place in Video Storytelling: Journeying home to tell my truth
2nd place in Series/Project: Race, Identity and Politics Series
3rd place in General Feature: Saving Aesha
Winners will be honored at SFJ’s national conference at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. On October 9-12.
Full list of winners here.
As the U.S. observes Memorial Day, CNN is honoring the fallen by spotlighting U.S. casualties from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Beginning this morning and over Memorial Day weekend, CNN.com’s homepage will feature a different member of the armed forces every hour in an interactive called 100 Hours, 100 Faces. The interactive compiles 100 of the more than 8,000 U.S. and coalition troops who have died in these conflicts. Among the 100 troops will be one from every state, as well as the youngest, the oldest, the first and some of the most recent casualties from both wars. 100 Hours, 100 Faces highlights information from CNN’s globally recognized Home and Away initiative, an extensive data visualization of those lost in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Rescue workers raced against time and the oncoming night Monday looking for survivors after a powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City, leveling homes and killing at least 51 people.
CNN's coverage includes correspondents George Howell, Nick Valencia and Gary Tuchman already in the Oklahoma City area, with Chad Myers and Indra Petersons contributing from CNN's Severe Weather Center in Atlanta. Chris Cuomo, John Berman, Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Pam Brown, Stephanie Elam, Erin McPike, Brian Todd, Ed Lavandera, Kyung Lah and John King will report and broadcast from the Oklahoma City area. Gustavo Valdes and Fernando del Rincon report from Oklahoma for CNN en Espanol.
CNN.com will be updating the breaking news blog www.cnn.com/thisjustin.
Two-mile-wide tornado kills at least 51 -- including 7 elementary school studentsCNN iReport reveals the honorees for the 3rd Annual CNN iReport Awards which recognize outstanding contributions to the network’s global participatory news community. Representing a mix of punditry, videos and emotional personal essays, recipients have been chosen from more than 100,000 iReports submitted in 2012. The honorees were determined by a combination of an esteemed panel of judges, online voters and the CNN iReport staff.
Also, for the first time ever, the iReport team unveils honorees in a new category called Excellence on the Web, highlighting examples of the best in citizen journalism outside of iReport in 2012.
…and the honorees are:
CNN.com Takes Top Spot for Breaking News
As the events in Boston unfolded last month, the world turned to CNN on air, online and on the go. Topping every news and information competitor, CNN Digital posted its most trafficked week (536 mm page views) and story in history (87 mm page views, source: Adobe SiteCatalyst). April also marked CNN.com’s second highest month on record for global video starts (162.5mm) and the narrowest margin (15%) ever between the CNN Digital Network and combined Yahoo!-ABC News rollup in unique visitors. A record-breaking month for CNN, April highlights include:
#1 Site for Breaking News
Throughout the week of the Boston manhunt, CNN.com was the most trafficked news and information site online, topping Yahoo! News with an all-time high of 536 million page views:
CNN.com (536 million)
• Yahoo! News by 8% (496 million)
• HuffingtonPost.com by 22% (441 million)
• FoxNews.com by 42% (377 million)
• NBCNews.com by 94% (276 million)
• NYTimes.com by 201% (178 million)
*Source: comScore Media Metrix for week ending 04/21/13
***PROGRAMMING NOTE: Aesha Update, Around the World, Friday, May 10, 12pmET
On CNN TV:
CNN/US: Around the World, Friday 12pm
CNN International: Amanpour, Friday 3pm
CNN en Español: Friday afternoon
Online:
CNN.com, Friday 12pm
Today, CNN will unveil an exclusive report on Aesha, the woman whose story of abuse and disfigurement became an international symbol of oppression and crimes against women in war-torn Afghanistan, during Around the World, which airs at 12pm ET. Reported by Christiane Amanpour and CNN Digital, the story will update viewers on Aesha’s journey and illuminate the psychological and physical scars that remain. Users can find more details on CNN.com and CNN.com/aesha. FULL POST
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