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(Video) NBC News 'theGrio' Builds Audience with Original Video

Posted: 05/29/2012 9:46 am


theGrio, the NBC News unit which targets African Americans, has built a growing audience and revenue model with original video, says co-founder Barion Grant in this interview with Beet TV.

Grant spoke at a recent online video news forum at the Columbia Journalism School hosted by duPont-Columbia Awards and the Online News Association

He says social media has enabled the site to have a "top down bottom up approach" to building a more organic audience.

NBC News-owned site, targeting African Americans, has over 400,000 Facebook fans.

More the growing impact of theGrio in this story on paidContent.

You can find this post on Beet.TV

 

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