40th NAACP Image Awards
Berry, Perry to host NAACP Image Awards Fox TV says Halle Berry and actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry will host the 40th NAACP Image Awards in February. Nominations for the Image Awards, which honor those who promote diversity in the arts, will be announced Jan. 7. (AP)
BlackVoices.com talks Audience Acquisition Nice but expected by most since BlackVoices has been the leader of the pack for sometime now. BlackWeb 2.0. was able to chat with Tariq Muhammad, Director at BlackVoices to get some insight into what exactly they did on a day-to-day basis to acquire more audience. Angela Benton of BlackWeb 2.0.: What I discovered was interesting and surprising coming from BlackVoices but was also something that all of us already knows works, Social Media. Our discussion revealed tactics that have been employed by blogs for some time now (and on a regular basis) can easily work on sites of any scale. (BlackWeb2.0)
Ebony, Jet partner with Google to digitize archives For years, Johnson Publishing Co. kept past issues of Ebony and Jet in bound volumes and on microfilm. If someone needed an old article or photo, staff librarians would unearth it from the archives. The Chicago-based media company that was a pioneer in covering black history and pop culture made a huge digital leap Wednesday, unveiling a partnership with Google Inc. to digitize the archives of Ebony and Jet magazines, making them searchable on the technology giant’s growing database of publications. (ChiTribune)
Uptown Magazine
Uptown Ups Circ, Frequency Uptown, the luxury lifestyle magazine targeting affluent African Americans, is set to increase its circulation, frequency and launch a regional edition in the Charlotte, North Carolina market in 2009. (Folio)
Barack Obama, Steve Harvey and Jennifer Hudson Top Searches for Search Engine Targeting Blacks RushmoreDrive.com ( www.rushmoredrive.com), an operating business of IAC, today announced their most popular searches in 2008. Barack Obama, Jennifer Hudson, and Britney Spears are among the top searches since its launch in April, 2008. RushmoreDrive.com is the first-of-its-kind search engine for the Black community. (Marketwatch)
