Ken Doctor has a very thorough look at the issues involving CNN's proposal to enter the wire-service business as a supplier to newspapers of multi-platform content. Last month CNN indicated it has assembled the machinery to provide national and international content to papers in competition with Associated Press, the standard-bearer under some stress for its rate structure from its cash-strapped member news organizations.
He evaluates the pitch CNN will make in a couple of weeks to the papers (it has invited reps to Atlanta for an unveiling) and poses nine good, if circuitous, questions about the strategic and tactical challenges in the plan.

The Pew Institute's new report on video-sharing hasn't many surprises for anyone attentive to our have-camera, will-shoot world. We're watching more video online than ever, we're sharing it more than ever, and the rate of increase (doubling in one year) indicates that enough time is being spent on the activity to erode conventional media, likely TV most of all. The only question is how soon video-sharing will become the new normal of viewership.