BoomTown » News.com http://kara.allthingsd.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:02:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Arianna Huffington Talks About New Managing Editor Singh! http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090428/arianna-huffington-talks-about-new-managing-editor-singh/ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090428/arianna-huffington-talks-about-new-managing-editor-singh/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:12:01 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=12949 While in Los Angeles today at the AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference, BoomTown ran smack into blogging empress Arianna Huffington.

She was there to give a speech called “Video Killed the Radio Star…But Can the Web Actually Save Journalism?”
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Her answer was a decided yes, especially with great journalists working online, such as the new managing editor of the Huffington Post, whom the mega-blog has just hired.

That would be former CNET Networks Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh (pictured here), who quit the tech news and reviews company last year after a dozen-year run.

“The bottom line is the Huffington Post has figured out how new media should be…and that’s what attracted and appealed to me,” said Singh in an interview today.

While only on the job for a few days, he noted that he will be looking at more video on the site, as well as focusing on its new vertical strategy.

Singh is moving from San Francisco to New York, where the Huffington Post HQ is located. (Huffington herself is, ironically, located in L.A., doing her work out of her Brentwood abode.)

Singh has been a true online news pioneer, creating News.com for CNET in 1996. CNET is now owned by CBS (CBS).

Here’s my video interview with Huffington, talking about Singh’s appointment and the future of the news business:


[ See post to watch video ] ]]> http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090428/arianna-huffington-talks-about-new-managing-editor-singh/feed/ 0 CNet's Dan Farber Speaks! http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080306/cnets-dan-farber-speaks/ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080306/cnets-dan-farber-speaks/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:46:26 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080306/cnets-dan-farber-speaks/ In a new BoomTown occasional feature that I am calling “Meet the Geeky Press,” here’s a video interview I did with Dan Farber, who was just appointed new editor-in-chief of CNet’s News.com, while I was at the Graphing Social Patterns West conference in San Diego earlier this week.

Farber, a longtime tech reporter and columnist, as well as a blogger, replaces Jai Singh. Farber was previously editor-in-chief of CNet’s ZDNet.

The tech news-and-reviews online media company has been under a lot of pressure lately, with challenges from some aggressive investors who are trying to take control of CNet, as well as increased competition from all over the Web that is impacting its traffic.

In any case, in Farber, who also ran ZDnet’s blogging network, CNet has a solid journalist in charge.

In the video, Farber and I talk about a wide range of issues, from Web consolidation to the trends in social networking to future tech trends, including his thoughts on Google and Apple:


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