Broadband Technology Brings News Video to the Web.(The FeedRoom.com comes under fire)

Nieman Reports, December, 2000 by Klein, Jonathan

Consumers--not journalists--decide what stories will be watched.

Some of my best journalist friends think I've become a threat to democracy. This is not some paranoid rant--The New York Times found the accusation fit to print. Others have expressed their concern privately.

It's all because, after 16 years as a producer and executive at CBS News, l have just launched a broadband news network, The FeedRoom, backed by a $30 million investment from NBC, Tribune Company, and Warburg Pincus. The FeedRoom aggregates the latest news video from NBC and Tribune's local television stations, among others, from wholesalers like Reuters and The Associated Press, and from a wide range of print entities that are beginning to broaden their offerings into...

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