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  • E.W. Scripps Company acquires Columbia, Mo.-based Newsy for $35M

    The news got out on Newsy’s brand of multi-source digital video journalism, as one of the industry’s biggest players, E.W. Scripps Company, has acquired the Columbia, Mo.-based startup for $35 million in cash …

  • Newsy scores long-term editorial relationship with MSN News

    In the middle of Missouri, paired with one of the top-rated journalism programs in the country, Newsy has quietly fostered big-league media relationships to share its multi-source video news service. Today, the Columbia, Mo.-based startup announced a long-term relationship with MSN News to collaboratively produce up to 20 videos per day for the network. …

  • Newsy gathers another win at Appy Awards in Austin

    The South by Southwest follow-up story for Newsy was just as worthwhile as the first. The Columbia, Mo. startup last week garnered the award for Best iPad Publishing at the MediaPost Appy Awards, where it won the News category in 2011. The company’s free video news app …

  • Newsy makes Roku latest platform to carry its multisource news videos

    Newsy today announced the availability of its channel on Roku, a streaming player. Newsy, a Columbia, Mo.-based news startup that we originally featured last summer, delivers the news of the day in multisource videos 2-3 minutes long that highlight the key differences in reporting from media outlets around the world. Those videos are now part…

  • Prairie Moves: Newsy, Pikuzone, SelectOut and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Newsy finds fertile ground growing multi-source news in Missouri

    Telling the story of his move from northern California to middle Missouri, Jim Spencer peppers in a couple of punch lines that have become well-polished with use. In 2008, Spencer relocated from San Francisco to Columbia, Mo. to start Newsy, a provider of multi-platform, multi-source video news analysis. “I explained to the folks in northern…