New Media

As we have noted, former Fox News host and GBTV founder Glenn Beck recently moved his studio from New York to Dallas, Texas.

One of the biggest benefits of being in Texas is the space. There’s lots of it. GBTV is putting that space to effective use, building out its studio in ways that could not be done in New York. Among them is a new area where Beck will promote advertisers and sponsors, taking the formula that has worked on radio for 100 years and trying to make it transfer to video.

There is also a full-size replica of the Oval Office, featuring replicas of The Resolute Desk and the Oval Office rug. Some of the props even came from the set of Oliver Stone‘s film “JFK.”

Watch Beck show off his new studio in this exclusive video:

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As you may have heard, on Friday Adam Yauch died. Yauch was one of the Beastie Boys, one of the musical voices of their generation.

Neal Brennan is a comedian, and the co-creator of the Comedy Central series “Chappelle’s Show.” To honor Yauch, Brennan posted an unreleased Beastie Boys performance on his YouTube page. The performance was supposed to be for season three of “Chappelle’s Show,” but when comedian Dave Chappelle left the program, it never had a chance to see the light of day.

Until today that is.

Unfortunately, lawyers for Viacom have sent a takedown notice to YouTube, and the video has been removed.

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The Guardian has been a respected daily newspaper based in London since 1821. In its two centuries of newsgathering, the paper went from telling a local story to providing a national presence.

In September, The Guardian branched out further, opening a U.S. operation in Soho.

Janine Gibson was chosen to helm the new operation. After 14 years in various positions with the organization, she is now editor-in-chief of Guardian US.

American response has been overwhelmingly positive, since The Guardian set up shop in New York.

The Guardian has already reached more than 24 million visitors on its site.

“We’re absolutely delighted,” Gibson tells FishbowlNY. “We started very quietly and small and we’ve grown fast.”

She says the Manhattan office has expanded to nearly 40 staffers.

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If you’ve ever been tasked with making a podcast for your publication, you know how daunting the experience can be. From picking the right equipment to interviewing guests, every little piece can be the difference between thousands of subscribers or none at all.

But one of the easiest ways to get people tuning in is to let your personality shine and express an opinion.

“The Internet is a medium that rewards people who provoke a little bit,” said Matt Binder, producer of “The Majority Report with Sam Seder.” ”There’s several ways to get at the truth. One is to just give information in a slightly dry and informative, just-the-facts way. Another is to have people debating a topic, and I think that is always much more dynamic.”

For eight more ways to grab listeners’ ears, read How to Make a Podcast People Want to Subscribe To.

When readers are skimming through a site on their browsers or Twitter feeds, the headline is the only thing that tells them whether a piece is worth their time. So, when tackling headlines for the Web, remember that clarity trumps cleverness (unless you’re writing for the front page of The New York Post).

“Headline writing for the Web isn’t headline writing for magazines — this is the land of the literal,” said Sara Wilson, a senior editor for The Huffington Post.

But that doesn’t mean a headline can’t also be engaging. “You want a strong ‘clicky’ headline that entices readers: a burning question, a big secret, a thing-you-need-to-click-on-this-headline-to-find-out,” she said. “But it should accurately reflect the ideas in the piece, or the readers will be annoyed.”

For eight more tactics on getting your article the buzz it deserves, read 9 Ways to Get More Comments, Tweets and Likes for Your Story.

Yahoo! has been through a number of transformations over the last few years. The Internet portal has launched high-profile news blogs, original video series and everything in between. With a new CEO in charge, the company has an idea of what it wants to do next, and video is at the core of it.

Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo!’s executive VP, spoke at the NATPE conference in Miami, where he revealed some details about the company’s plans.

“For 17 years Yahoo! has sort of been known as a catch-all for everything, and I do think you really need to pick your fights,” Levinsohn said. “The notion of scarcity [in creating video] doesn’t exist anymore, but what there is scarcity of is premium video. I like watching the cat chasing the laser pointer like everyone else, but it is impossible to monetize.”

Yahoo!’s strategy so far is to partner with people and brands with household name recognition, and to let them go wild with the shows they create. For example, Yahoo! recently inked a deal with ABC News, and Levinsohn said that deal has been “going gangbusters” for Yahoo!

Another deal was with actor Tom Hanks to produce a new web series called “Electric City.”

“We are going to do many many more of those,” Levinsohn said.

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News Corp. chief digital officer Jon Miller argued that the future of digital media will center around video… and of course that his company was in prime position to take advantage of it.

“I think we are just entering into the real video age now,” Miller said at the NATPE conference in Miami Beach.

NATPE is a conference for television programming executives, with production companies and networks–both domestic and foreign–looking to make deals.

Miller said that research indicates that on the axis of money spent and time sent, print seems to be losing, the web seems to be winning, and television is in a happy place in-between. As a result, he says, print is the medium that needs to adapt most.

“It is pretty likely that is where the money is coming from, which is why we are doing things like what we are doing with the Wall Street Journal,” Miller said.

The Wall Street Journal Project is very highly regarded at News Corp., someone close to the matter says. During business hours, the WSJ has a CNBC-style lineup of business programs, streamed on WSJ.com. The key for the WSJ project is expanding its distribution beyond the newspaper’s website. Our source says that the company has CNBC in its sites, trying to create the next generation of business network, without many of the high costs associated with launching a new TV network.

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With the runaway success of eBooks and iPads, you’d think that launching a tablet version for a magazine would be a given. However, Entertainment Weekly executive editor Kristen Baldwin says that rushing into the field too early could be a mistake for publishers.

“We’ve been on the tablet with our Must List app for quite a while, but in terms of the actual magazine, we really wanted to wait until we got it right,” she explained in our Media Beat interview. “Because what we learned is you have to get it right the first time, and users have to really enjoy it and be satisfied with it, because otherwise they’re just not gonna come back.”

Baldwin also discussed the key to writing those punchy blurbs that EW is known for: “It’s kind of like writing haiku.”

You can also view this video on YouTube.

Part 1: Entertainment Weekly‘s Kristen Baldwin Talks ‘Entertainers of the Year’
Part 3: EW‘s Kristen Baldwin on the Ryan Gosling Factor

Emmis’ 98.7 KISS FM/WRKS has launched an Internet live stream just in time to keep its loyal listeners tuned in while on the move for the holidays.

“It’s been a highly anticipated addition to the powerful KISS Classic Soul and Today’s R&B brand, Jay Dixon, KISS program director, says. “New York’s greatest music can now be heard world wide.”

You can hear the station’s online stream 24 hours a day.

This afternoon Time magazine hosted its annual panel discussion debating exactly who deserves to be the 2011 “Person of the Year.”

The panelists were comprised of “NBC Nightly News” anchor and panel stalwart Brian Williams, his colleague “Saturday Night Live” fake news anchor Seth Meyers, actor Jesse Eisenberg, law professor Anita Hill, Americans for tax Reform president Grover Norquist and celebrity chef Mario Batali. Moderated by Time editor Richard Stengel, the panelists debated whether a dead person (Steve Jobs, Osama Bin Laden) or group (populist movements, the 99%) deserve to be considered.

Some of the surprises:  Hill had a stern “no comment” when asked about the Herman Cain allegations, though she did say sexual harassment is more likely to be taken seriously now than it was 20 or so years ago.

Mario Batali is a serious dude. As you will see below, he had harsh words for Wall Street bankers (comparing them to Hitler and Stalin!), as well as Occupy Wall Street protestors, saying “it is a kind of a part time job for those guys, they aren’t really playing the real thing. They are kind of quietly sitting around. It is a very 2011 rebellion, they aren’t breaking anything, no one is getting hurt, for that very reason no one is paying any attention.”

Some of the other highlights from the lunch:

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