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Mediatwits #5: Who Owns Social Media Followers?; Byliner CEO John Tayman

John Tayman

Welcome to the fifth episode of “The Mediatwits,” the new revamped longer form weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week’s show is about the various social media policies at news organizations, and how they vary from place to place. Plus, can media companies actually own the followers of popular reporters or on-air anchors?

Our guest this week is John Tayman, CEO and co-founder of Byliner, a new place for long-form journalism and storytelling. Plus, we follow up on last week’s episode about iPhones and iPads tracking people, and look at the MediaShift poll results.

Check it out!

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

Mark gets a new iPad 2

0:45: No WiFi iPad 2’s available; Mark needs the 64GB Verizon

1:50: Rafat gives News.me a mixed review so far

3:50: Rafat uses his iPad for early email and social media use in the morning

5:15: Rundown of topics on the show

Social media policies at media companies

7:00: Washington Post editor says news org can “own” followers for staffers

9:40: Rick Sanchez keeps his followers and Twitter account after leaving CNN

12:10: Bloomberg doesn’t want to break news on social media

John Tayman interview

15:15: Background info on John Tayman, CEO of Byliner

18:10: ‘Three Cups of Deceit’ tops Amazon Singles chart

21:00: Byliner will launch Pandora-like portal for long-form feature writing

24:00: Tayman likes “feature” rather than “long-form” as a description for pieces

25:00: William Vollmann will report from Japan in the next Byliner original out next Tuesday

27:45: Byliner received angel funding of nearly $1 million

Apple tracking follow-up

29:10: Steve Jobs and Apple execs say tracking is just a misunderstanding

30:15: People won’t care unless something bad happens

31:30: MediaShift poll results mixed on Apple tracking

More Reading

Newspapers and Social Media: Still Not Really Getting It at GigaOm

Bloomberg updates social media policy: Ask first. Tweet later at eMediaVitals

Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer

With three cups of luck, Byliner builds pre-launch buzz for its longform-focused platform at Nieman Lab

Q&A: Jobs and Apple Execs on Tracking Down the Facts About iPhones and Location at AllThingsD

Wrapping Up the Apple Location Brouhaha at NY Times

What Do You Think About iPhones Tracking You? at PBS MediaShift

Weekly Poll

Don’t forget to vote in our weekly poll, this time about social media policies at news organizations:

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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