Tuesday, April 5, 2011

New - Newsy (update - add link)

Newsy is a small outfit that is partnering with the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, creating 2-minute video news clips for distribution through a range of mobile apps and devices.  Newsy curates/aggregates content, pulling stories and video from multiple sources and wrapping it up in its own talking head shot.  The start-ups business model is a mix of advertising and content syndication, supplemented by an initial round of investment funding, and cheap labor from the J-School across the street.
Newsy recently was awarded an Appy Award for best news app from MediaPost.

Source: "Is Newsy a Glimpse of Mobile-Powered Future TV?", Mobile Insider.
             Newsy website
 

1 comment:

  1. Quite interesting! Reminds me of AJ+ on facebook! Theyre doing video with overlay text to get through a news story quicker!

    Cheers
    /Richard
    http://www.megapixelab.se

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