Remember Daryn Kagan? She was once one of CNN’s stars. Now, thanks to the web, she’s an independent journalist. Expect to see more of this.
UPDATE: It should be noted that Kagan is taking a pretty big media/packaged media approach. She and her cohorts slickly produce everything. It’s a very structured approach. There’s no blog. No UGC. At least she makes contacting her pretty easy (or appears so, I haven’t actually tried) and wants feedback and story tips, but there’s no sense that she’s willing to enter into a conversation with her audience. You also can’t grab some HTML from her site to embed her video into yours.
The other thing I wonder about — the one segment I watched featured a guy who runs a relationship web site. She plugged his URL a couple of times. Is that product placement? There’s no disclosure if it is. I don’t see any other apparent business model on the site.
Howard-
Thanks for the mention in your blog. Some updates/corrections: You absolutely can embed my videos on your site. Just click on “get link” under the video player. I encourage folks to do so.
No product placement on my site. and Yes, I do have a blog.Hope yours is doing great!
Thanks, Howard.
Daryn Kagan.