Newsy.com Taps Maples, Flink

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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News Web site Newsy.com has hired Pam Maples, the former editor of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as VP of editorial for the site.

In addition, Jim Flink, weekend news anchor and reporter for KMBC-TV, will be an editorial advisor while remaining with the station.

The site uses Missouri School of Journalism students to compare and contrast news stories and source for 2-3 minute videos.

The site was started in Silicon Valley for a former journalism student there, Jim Spencer, who moved the operations to Columbia, Mo., with economic development help from the city and tax credits from the state.

Since launching an iPhone app in late September, it has become the fifth-most popular free news app in the store, according to a Newsy.com spokesperson.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.