About Daisy
Daisy Whitney specializes in covering Internet video, social networking, YouTube, iTunes and other forms of online and new media distribution of content. As a multimedia reporter she is one of the first journalists to launch her own online newscast that covers the business of Internet video. Her work is regularly read and watched by executives across the television, cable, advertising and Internet businesses.
She has written for a number of publications including TelevisionWeek, Advertising Age, Shape, Business 2.0 and The Denver Post.
She is currently TelevisionWeek’s new media reporter, extensively covering broadband video, iTunes, online television, consumer-generated media, interactive television, video-on-demand and mobile programming. She also contributes on-air reports to “Tech Now” a program produced by NBC’s KNTV in San Francisco.
Daisy is also the host and creator of the Webcast “New Media Minute,” carried here and at www.TVWeek.com. She is also a weekly contributor on “This Week in Media” and she writes a weekly column for NewTeeVee.com.
In addition, Daisy writes regularly for Advertising Age, OMMA and Media covering trends in television, online and advertising.
As an expert on new media technology, Daisy has appeared on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, CNBC’s Closing Bell and G4’s Attack of the Show. She has also been interviewed by NPR and the Wall Street Journal. Daisy consults on new media and is a frequent moderator for industry panels at conferences such as the Consumer Electronics Show, the National Association of Broadcasters and the National Association of Television Programming Executives.
Her freelance articles have appeared in Canada’s The Globe and Mail, Miami Herald, New Media Age, Extra Extra, Multichannel News, Natural Health and Consumers Digest.
Daisy writes commercial women’s fiction with a modern and hip edge to her characters and dialogue. You can read more about her books on this site.
Daisy graduated from Brown University in 1994 with a degree in art history.
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