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msnbc.com, which had the first embeddable video player among the major video producers in the United States, will soon launch a player which provides embed codes for specific segments. The new player will also be resizable and will carry forms of advertising, deemed acceptable on off domain sites, meaning no pre-roll ads. These are some of the comments by Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com in response to answers from Rafat Ali, editor and pubisher of paidContent. Rafat was one of the co-moderators of the recent Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable which was held at msnbc.com's New York headquarters at 30 Rock.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

As an online video news source, msnbc.com has the enormous advantage, with resources of NBC, but the opportunities exist for niche video news producers who focus on a niche areas and use low cost digital news gathering can succeed. I interviewed Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com on Sixth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, just before we started our Beet.TV Online Video Roundable, which was hosted by Charlie at the msnbc.com Digital Cafe at 30 Rock.

While millions of individuals are uploading videos to YouTube, the integration of citizen journalism into mainstream media has not yet happened on a large scale, says Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Phil was a panelist at the Beet.TV online video roundtable last week at Stanford. We agree. While CNN's iReport, Current.com and others are providing the public with tools to upload into managed media environments, this is still in the early stages. YouTube of course has established a powerful place as platform for citizen journalism which is "curated" not edited, says Steve Grove, YouTube's news and politics head who appears in this clip. Finally, Charles Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com agrees with Bronstein that the integration of citizen journalism into mainstream media is yet to happen. Moderating this panel was Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News and now a consultant with the Monitor Group. Here's Phil's take on the conference in his blog post on the San Francisco Chronicle.Special thanks to Tony Perkins and the staff of AlwaysOn for hosting at their venue on Tuesday afternoon. Also, thanks to TurnHere for sponsoring us.More highlights from the conference ahead. -- Andy Plesser, Executive ProducerPosted on Beet.TV on Tuesday, July 29, 2008http://www.beet.tv/2008/07/citizen-journal.html

While online news consumption is largely a destination activity akin to picking up a newspaper, Charles Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com, says that a highly distributed model is essential.msnbc.com is the first national news organization to make its videos shareable via an embeddable code. Beet.TV first reported this development earlier this year. It also has a joint venture for political coverage with MySpace. This is our third segment of interview with Charlie which we taped earlier this month in the msnbc.com offices in Manhattan.Back from Stanford On Tuesday, Charlie joined us at Stanford for the Beet.TV online media roundtable where he was the featured speaker. Below is a photo from our event. Left of Charlie is Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3, and on the right is Andrew Heyward, consultant with the Monitor Group former president of CBS News. Andrew co-moderated the panel with me. -- Andy Plesser, Executive ProducerPosted on Beet.TV on Thursday, July 24, 2008http://www.beet.tv/2008/07/msnbccom-has-hy.html

PALO ALTO -- "There are no TV journalists anymore," says Charles Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com in this interview with Beet.TVmsnbc.com is a joint venture of NBC Universal and Microsoft. Nope, he didn't mean that there's any downsizing over at NBC News, he means that video news gathering is no longer television-centric but content is being created for the Web. A few days ago, we visited him at the NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza for this overview of the transformation of video journalism. Charlie will be the featured speaker at the Beet.TV online media roundtable taking place on the Stanford campus in a few hours. Our session today is moderated by former CBS News President Andrew Heyward and myself. We have a great line up of folks from YouTube, CBS Interactive, The New York Times, Adobe, VideoEgg, TurrnHere, Vator.tv, CNET, HP and many others. We are not streaming live, but will provide numerous segment from the sessions and one-on-one interviews over the next few weeks. Kelsey and I will also cover the AlwaysOn conference which begins later today. -- Andy Plesser, Executive ProducerPosted on Beet.TV on Tuesday, July 22, 2008http://www.beet.tv/2008/07/there-no-more-t.html