Digital news site Mashable is laying off an unspecified number of staffers, a top editor and c-suite executive as part of a shift in focus to video and television. In a memo posted on LinkedIn, Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore said that the company “must part ways with some … colleagues.” He said executive editor Jim Roberts and chief revenue officer Seth Rogin both are leaving as part of the reorganization. “We are now equally adept at telling stories in text and video, and those stories now live on social networks, over-the-top services and TV,” he wrote. Also Read: Mashable...
- 4/7/2016
- by Joan E. Solsman
- The Wrap
Mashable is expanding its business strategy and content offerings. The digital media publisher has debuted Mashable Studios, and brought on Eric Korsh as the division’s new director.
Mashable Studios will work to develop original video programming and branded entertainment for distribution across a variety of platforms, both for Mashable and its advertising partners. Korsh is charged with leading Mashable’s new studio initiative; he has over 25 years’ experience in TV and film production and worked most recently as DigitasLBi Studios’ Senior Vice President of Brand Social and Content.
Korsh will report to Mashable’s Executive Editor and Chief Content Officer Jim Roberts, as well as the media company’s Chief Strategy Officer Adam Ostrow.
“With the addition of Eric to our team, we have a great opportunity to diversify our storytelling voice with compelling videos that our global audience can engage with and share,” Roberts said in a release.
Mashable Studios will work to develop original video programming and branded entertainment for distribution across a variety of platforms, both for Mashable and its advertising partners. Korsh is charged with leading Mashable’s new studio initiative; he has over 25 years’ experience in TV and film production and worked most recently as DigitasLBi Studios’ Senior Vice President of Brand Social and Content.
Korsh will report to Mashable’s Executive Editor and Chief Content Officer Jim Roberts, as well as the media company’s Chief Strategy Officer Adam Ostrow.
“With the addition of Eric to our team, we have a great opportunity to diversify our storytelling voice with compelling videos that our global audience can engage with and share,” Roberts said in a release.
- 6/1/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
This afternoon, news broke of Joan Rivers’ death. Celebrities, media outlets, and friends have been offering their condolences on Twitter and social media and sharing their best memories of the late comedienne:
.@Joan_Rivers was a dear & wonderful friend who I've known for 45yrs. Great guest, pal, comedian & mother. We will never see her likes again— Larry King (@kingsthings) September 04, 2014
#RIPJoanRivers #Legend instagram.com/p/siPD5iOc7o/— Ken Baker (@kenbakernow) September 04, 2014
Joan was a classic New Yorker. Her wit, style, moxie, feminist trailblazing, and quiet philanthropy made her a legend. #RIPJoanRivers— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) September 04, 2014
we lost a...
.@Joan_Rivers was a dear & wonderful friend who I've known for 45yrs. Great guest, pal, comedian & mother. We will never see her likes again— Larry King (@kingsthings) September 04, 2014
#RIPJoanRivers #Legend instagram.com/p/siPD5iOc7o/— Ken Baker (@kenbakernow) September 04, 2014
Joan was a classic New Yorker. Her wit, style, moxie, feminist trailblazing, and quiet philanthropy made her a legend. #RIPJoanRivers— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) September 04, 2014
we lost a...
- 9/4/2014
- by Teresa Jue
- EW.com - PopWatch
Jim Roberts is Mashable’s new executive editor and chief content officer, the former Reuters Digital editor and New York Times veteran said on Twitter Wednesday. Just in: I’m joining @Mashable as exec editor & chief content officer. Excited to team up with @PeteCashmore & crew! http://t.co/zzE4Zgclfv — Jim Roberts (@nycjim) October 30, 2013 Also read: Dan Colarusso Will Replace Jim Roberts at Reuters Digital “To some it might seem a bit of a departure. You might imagine a headline like: ‘Longtime New York Times and Reuters veteran forsakes legacy media for digital upstart,’” Roberts wrote in an announcement on Mashable.
- 10/30/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a week after Jim Roberts announced he was stepping down as the executive editor of Reuters Digital, Thomson Reuters has announced that Dan Colarusso will be given the role. Reuters columnist Felix Salmon tweeted the news on Tuesday that Colarusso, currently Thomson Reuters’ head of global programming, would be his “new boss.” Also read: Reuters Shakeup: Top Editor Departs, ‘Next’ Canceled Roberts decided to leave Reuters after it scrapped plans for its “Next” project, which would make Reuters a consumer-facing news source in addition to its wire service. He’d been in the role just seven months.
- 9/24/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
It was a morning of shakeups at Reuters. The wire service on Wednesday said it was losing new Reuters Digital Executive Editor Jim Roberts and Design Director Daniele Code, promoting Bill Riordan to publisher of Reuters.com and canceling its “Next” project after it failed to meet deadlines or stay within its budget. Roberts’ departure after just seven months is especially surprising — he left the New York Times after 26 years with the paper in January, taking a voluntary buyout. Shortly afterwards, he landed at Reuters as its site’s executive editor. According to an internal email, he chose to leave the company.
- 9/18/2013
- The Wrap
Interactive project about the plight of the Holmes family is in official selection at Sheffield's Doc/Fest
Firestorm, the Guardian's groundbreaking multimedia project about a catastrophic bushfire that devastated the small Tasmanian town of Dunalley, has been selected for competition at the prestigious Sheffield documentary festival, Doc/Fest, which runs next week.
The Guardian's half-hour, online experience, which blends longform writing, video documentary, audio material and interactive elements, will be a permanent installation at the event, one of the world's top three documentary festivals, and is also in official competition for its Innovation Award.
Produced to coincide with the launch of Guardian Australia, Firestorm was inspired by the now iconic photos taken by Tim Holmes of his wife Tammy and five grandchildren sheltering under a jetty from the flames that destroyed their home.
Telling the story of the family and the town that day, as well as exploring why such disastrous fires happen and how,...
Firestorm, the Guardian's groundbreaking multimedia project about a catastrophic bushfire that devastated the small Tasmanian town of Dunalley, has been selected for competition at the prestigious Sheffield documentary festival, Doc/Fest, which runs next week.
The Guardian's half-hour, online experience, which blends longform writing, video documentary, audio material and interactive elements, will be a permanent installation at the event, one of the world's top three documentary festivals, and is also in official competition for its Innovation Award.
Produced to coincide with the launch of Guardian Australia, Firestorm was inspired by the now iconic photos taken by Tim Holmes of his wife Tammy and five grandchildren sheltering under a jetty from the flames that destroyed their home.
Telling the story of the family and the town that day, as well as exploring why such disastrous fires happen and how,...
- 6/5/2013
- by Jon Henley
- The Guardian - Film News
Keith Olbermann’s Countdown returned to the air Wednesday night after it was preempted Tuesday for live coverage of the Iowa caucuses. But the story of his absence isn’t ready to die, and the media are wondering if Olbermann’s most recent “clash” with his bosses means his days at Current TV are “numbered.”
After learning that Olbermann and his staff thought they were putting on a show in New York Tuesday, Current TV president David Bohrman sent an internal memo insisting Olbermann had been asked to headline its primary coverage but declined. Olbermann, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday,...
After learning that Olbermann and his staff thought they were putting on a show in New York Tuesday, Current TV president David Bohrman sent an internal memo insisting Olbermann had been asked to headline its primary coverage but declined. Olbermann, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday,...
- 1/5/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Evangeline Griego's documentary God Willing (which screened at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, but is also being aired on PBS (check your local listings)) is a new take on the religious cult documentary. Instead of focusing on the cult itself, or even dismissing their practices, Griego turns her attention to the parents of men and women who entered themselves into the Jim Roberts Cult (also known as the garbage eaters), a sect that takes the Bible so literally that its members are encouraged to break off all ties with their family and friends and maintain only contact with those in the cult, as they will be only family the members have in the afterlife. Griego, a documentary producers for well over a decade, has a personal interests in this particular subject: Her nephew was once a member of the Jim Roberts Cult, and during that time, had no contact with his family.
- 5/2/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
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