Vivian Schiller
Chief Digital Officer, NBC News
Disgraced NPR Chief Picked to Head NBC News Digital
And that new chief will be none other than Vivian Schiller, the disgraced former head of National Public Radio (NPR). You may remember Vivian Schiller for her bungled firing of the NPR commentator Juan Williams back in 2010. The Juan Williams mess wasn't the only thing that ... Read more »
NBC Shuts Down Hyperlocal Web Site
“We did not take this decision lightly,” Vivian Schiller, the chief digital officer for NBC News, said in an e-mail message. Asked whether NBC considered a merger or a sale of EveryBlock, she said, “We looked at various options, both internal and external, but none of them were viable. ... Read more »
Andy Plesser: Vivian Schiller: NBC News is Readying "Rich Journalism Destination"
NBC News is in the midst of the "reinvention" of its Web site which will launch this spring as a "rich journalism destination," with enterprise, investigative reporting and a significant increase of "Web native video" news reporting, says Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer of NBC ... Read more »
NBC News shuts down hyperlocal site EveryBlock
It was a tough call to make," NBC News' chief digital officer Vivian Schiller told Poynter. Schiller said EveryBlock wasn't a good fit with the company's growth strategy. "EveryBlock was among the more innovative and ambitious journalism projects at a time when journalism ... Read more »
Microsoft and NBC Breakup
The site will be folded into NBC Digital and run by former National Public Radio chief executive Vivian Schiller, who joined as NBC News digital chief last year. Current MSNBC president Charlie Tillinghast will continue to run the former MSNBC digital properties--including Today.com... Read more »
The 16-Year Itch: Microsoft, NBC Call It Quits, NBC Gets Custody Of MSNBC.com
It’s also most likely a move that has been decided from the top: the new NBCNews.com site will be a part of NBC News Digital, a new division led by Vivian Schiller, who joined NBC as chief digital officer from NPR in 2011. That division also includes tv.msnbc.com, TODAY.com... Read more »
Microsoft and NBC dissolve MSNBC.com joint venture
Readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com "There is no question that we are going to have more flexibility to make our own decisions," said Vivian Schiller, NBC News' chief digital officer. "This is really an amicable breakup. We think ... Read more »
Andy Plesser: (Video) NBC Debuts "Multi-Platform News Organization" at London 2012 Olympics
The recent news that MSNBC.com has become NBCNews.com is much more than a name change, it means that all the digital resources of NBC News, its cable networks and owned televison are unified online as a new, "multi-platform news organization," explains Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital ... Read more »
The disruption in media and real-time politics at paidContent 2012
I’m looking forward to all of those sessions, but I’m also really looking forward to the two I’m moderating: an interview with Union Square Ventures partner and Twitter investor Fred Wilson and a panel with Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall and Vivian Schiller of NBC News. More ... Read more »
Chief Digital Officer (CDO) Summit Announces Keynotes by Vivian Schiller (SVP &...
Chief Digital Officer (CDO) Summit Announces Keynotes by Vivian Schiller (SVP & CDO, NBC News), David Payne (SVP & CDO, Gannett Co., Inc.), and Jonathan Miller (former CDO, News Corporation) News and Entertainment Industry Executives to Share Best Practices for Digital Media, Mobile ... Read more »
Keynote Speaker Announced for APPNATION NYC + TV 3.0 Summit
Learn more... Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 10:53 AM EDT - U.S. Markets close in 5 hrs 7 mins NBC News' Chief Digital Officer Vivian Schiller to Bring Experience, Insight, Expertise and Inspiration to APPNATION Stage NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -04/26/12)- APPNATION, a new kind of conference and ... Read more »
Andy Plesser: The "Second Phase of Online Video" is All About Metadata, RAMP's Tom Wilde
The event is being hosted by Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer of NBC News at NBC. The sessions are being recoreded for future publication. A list o the speakers and moderators are here: Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer, NBC News Joanna O'Connell, Principal Analyst... Read more »
Is Twitter good or bad for political journalism?
The ‘one-day story’ — itself an archaic term in the 21st century — has become the one-hour story.” This phenomenon is something we discussed at the paidContent 2012 conference in New York earlier this year, during a panel that I moderated with Vivian Schiller of NBC News and Josh ... Read more »
NBC failing at Olympic coverage
NBC’s digital operations chief, Vivian Schiller, tweeted that the gold medal for “most Olympic whining” would go to those who are upset by tape delay. Schiller must not have learned her lesson after being forced to resign her CEO post at NPR after her comments about Juan Williams. ... Read more »
Former NPR CEO: Get Off Government Funding By John Fund
The NPR board also recommended that CEO Vivian Schiller lose her bonus for 2010 because of her role in the affair. (Schiller infamously said that Williams’s comments suggested that he should see a psychiatrist. ) After the O’Keefe scandal broke in early 2011, Schiller was ... Read more »
Gregory Gittrich of Mountainside named a new executive editor at NBC News Digital
He will report to Vivian Schiller, SVP and Chief Digital Officer of NBC News. Gittrich joins NBC News from the NBC Owned Television Stations group, where he was the vice president of digital media and editor-in-chief of NBC Local Integrated Media. In that role, Gittrich was responsible ... Read more »
Will NBC pick up fired Yahoo news chief David Chalian like they did fired NPR CEO Vivian Schiller? -...
Will NBC pick up fired Yahoo news chief David Chalian like they did fired NPR CEO Vivian Schiller? They seem to love extreme left wing zealots there. Be the first person to mark this question as interesting! Yahoo! does not evaluate or guarantee the accuracy of any Yahoo! Answers ... Read more »
MSNBC.com breakup gives Microsoft more freedom online
"The goal is to use the next two years to get people to come to us directly," said Vivian Schiller, NBC News chief digital officer, who will oversee the innovation center. The joint venture hasn't kept NBC from developing relationships with other tech companies, Schiller said. ... Read more »
How does politics change in the age of the real-time social web?
At paidContent 2012 in New York recently, I asked Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall and NBC News digital head Vivian Schiller for their perspective on that question and you can hear their answers in the video embedded below. Marshall, the editor and publisher of the ... Read more »
Social media doesn’t speed up the news cycle
Marshall appeared with Vivian Schiller, chief digital officer of NBC News at the paidContent 2012 conference, where the two talked about how social media has influenced and reshaped the news business. Marshall said social media is part of a larger continuum that began with the Internet ... Read more »
