A year ago, I stuck my neck out and defended Demand Media’s approach to developing great content down on the content farm .

The Wall Street Journal announced it will launch a YouTube channel today that features “soft news” instead of “hard news.”

Reuters, one of the oldest and most respected news organizations in the world, has joined YouTube and will have a channel dedicated to all the world's news , including finance, politics, and technology.

In Part 2 of our series on the Orabrush YouTube marketing story, I interviewed Orabrush Spokesperson Austin Craig to talk about how he became the company’s spokesperson for their highly popular YouTube channel. ( You can read Part 1 here ). Austin shares several tips for others who are considering being a web spokesperson or web personality as a professional career choice.

On this week's episode of The Reel Web, we show you what's happening with Netflix after all their customers leaving them recently. Also, YouTube and online video is really changing the way we consume media--especially journalism. And Xbox has made an interesting purchase that we'll look at as well

Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain made news recently for his campaign cancelling an interview with newspaper this Thursday, saying it didn’t want the interview to be video recorded and arguing that video is only typical for television. But do the latest stats show otherwise?

Several years ago, Diablo Cody launched her writing career by blogging her candid account of the life of an exotic dancer, which she then leveraged into the book Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper .

Most newspaper hacks and PR flacks are creatures of habit.

Maybe it’s time we let YouTube grow up. Maybe instead of constantly referencing YouTube as a site for “cat videos,” even when reporting on the advertising side of the site, we should start giving them their due for what they really are: a behemoth of advertising dollars, small business videos, and future television stars.

The time is now to counter the troubling proliferation of socially irresponsible video online, and that starts with each of us. That’s why I’ve enlisted the help a couple of ethics and legal experts to help me with putting together what I believe is the first-ever, “Pledge for Online Video Responsibility,” which I hope can help both online video professionals and enthusiasts be more mindful and considerate of others. A Pledge For Online Video Responsibility Created by Grant Crowell with Editorial Advisors and Contributors: Professor Steven Mintz and Attorney Gordon P.