About Us
Daily Download is founded by Lauren Ashburn, President of Ashburn Media Company.
Philip Bump is Managing Editor. He has contributed to The Atlantic, The Daily, and Mediaite, covering the intersection of technology and the media.
The Board of Advisors includes: Howard Kurtz, Newsweek/Daily Beast; Jim Brady, Digital First Media; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine/CUNY professor; Taegan Goddard, Political Wire; and Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs.
Contributors include: Howard Kurtz; Steven V. Roberts, George Washington University; Frank Sesno, George Washington University; Mark Potts, University of Maryland; Rachel Sklar, media commentator; Paula Carreiro, The National Cathedral Elementary School.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation of Miami is funding a two-year effort to create a series of media innovation video reviews called Daily Download that will help viewers determine which websites and online tools for covering news and public affairs are effective and credible. These are being produced in association with Maryland Public Television.The video reviews will gauge the performance of digital media news in order to increase digital and media literacy among news consumers and media professionals. The reviews are made available via satellite to public broadcasters and websites nationwide.
The videos are hosted by Howard Kurtz, who is also the anchor of CNN’s Reliable Sources, and by Lauren Ashburn, president of Ashburn Media and former managing editor for USA Today and Gannett Broadcasting.
Latest Posts
DD: The Life and Legacy of Mike Wallace
April 10th, 2012Daily Download's Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn discuss the life and legacy of CBS' legendary newsman.
DD on C-SPAN: Hilary Rosen v. Ann Romney
April 12th, 2012The Daily Download team was on C-SPAN this morning, discussing the interaction of politics and social media. It was the perfect moment to do so, after a Twitter debate raged last night and into today.
Oprah Who? Twitter Is the New Confessional
April 13th, 2012Goodbye, Oprah’s couch; hello, Twitter. You want to say you’re sorry in this day and age, tweet it. God forbid you pick up the phone and call someone.
It took lobbyist Hilary Rosen half a news cycle yesterday to apologize for sticking her foot in her mouth the night before on CNN by saying Ann Romney, a mother of five who has suffered from breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, “never worked a day in her life.”
When asked by Wolf Blitzer later in the day what she had to say to Romney, Rosen did not say she was sorry. When Wolf called her on it, Rosen seemed to think the electronic version was enough: “Well, I assume that Mrs. Romney saw my apology this afternoon, but, if not, I apologize.”
Take a look at: Ann Romney’s Body Language Analysis
Next Issue (Sadly) Fails to Revolutionize Magazines
April 13th, 2012Let’s start by talking about the good parts of Next Issue, the new Netflix-style subscription app that houses some of the best magazines from Conde Naste, Hearst, and TimeInc’s stables, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Elle, Time, and Sports Illustrated.
As I’ve said before, centralizing the mag-reading experience is totally sensible. There’s absolutely no need for there to be one app per magazine. I’m very happy that Next Issue is attempting to create a one-stop shop for my reading pleasure.
Republicans Love Diet Dr. Pepper. But Why?
April 13th, 2012A recent study from National Media Research Planning & Placement identified particular brands that resonate also political lines, such as Diet Dr. Pepper’s strength with Republicans. But: why?
How Police Forensics Saved A Novel
April 13th, 2012Trish Vickers is an author, who writes her novels by hand. Trish is also blind. When she recently discovered that she’d written 26 pages with a dry pen, she and her family took the manuscript to the local police to see if they could help recover what she’d written
CREEP Returns To The Watergate
April 13th, 2012Someone with a keen sense of both humor and history has registered a new SuperPAC named “The Committee to Re-Elect the President.” Or CREEP for short. And it’s mailing address will sound awfully familiar.
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