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Betsy Morgan
former CEO
The Huffington Post

Until mid-June, Betsy Morgan was CEO of the fast-growing news website The Huffington Post. She led the site through record-breaking traffic during the recent presidential election campaign and inauguration, and introduced new lifestyle and celebrity areas to the site that helped bring it back to those audience levels this spring. Prior to joining HuffPost, she was SVP and GM of CBSNews.com, and was also in charge of business development and new television ventures. She has worked for News Corporation’s American Sky Broadcasting and in investment banking. She is a graduate of Colby College and the Harvard Business School.

Avner Ronen
founder and CEO
Boxee

Boxee launched in 2008, and has garnered more than a half-million users, called “Alpha testers.” Boxee calls itself a “social” media center, whose free, open source downloadable software allows computer users to enjoy movies, TV, music and photos, and Web content and to post messages about the content through social networks like Twitter and Friendfeed. Avner was named one of Rolling Stone’s “Agents of Change” for 2009. Prior to Boxee he was Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc. a leading provider of software and service to telecom service providers. He served for 4.5 years in the Israeli Defense Force in the special computer unit, MAMRAM

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About This Webcast

Live from the ScribeMedia studio in downtown NYC, Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media sits down for a live video live video interview with Betsy Morgan, recently CEO of The Huffington Post, and Boxee CEO Avner Ronen to talk about paid vs. free, working with the bureaucracy, the state of news, aggregating Web video and more.

Topic

Avner Ronen, CEO of fast-growing media aggregation and social networking startup Boxee, doesn’t shy from speaking his mind — even when it gets him in trouble with major TV networks. Betsy Morgan knows TV networks from the inside — she led CBS News digital — and how to bring a startup to the next level, as the CEO of Huffington Post.

We’ll ask Avner and Betsy your questions as well as things on our minds, such as: Can Boxee negotiate the TV network demands and ongoing disputes with Hulu? What’s up with their recently-announced redesign and new features? Can Comcast’s attempts to challenge Hulu possibly succeed? Why did Betsy leave (was she really booted?) the HuffPost and what’s next for her? Whither HuffPost now that a venture capital executive is in charge? And money money money: who’s making it, how to make it, and much much more.

Plus as, always, the innovative ideas and “aha” moments you can use, fun with Dorian’s “Shallow Thoughts,” and other recent coverage.

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About Naked Media

Through interviews with cutting edge leaders and thinkers from the media industry, Naked Media explores the nexus of content, advertising and technology — all with an eye toward measurable goals in the digital age. Naked Media peels back the covers to show in stark reality how it’s done, what media managers are doing even as the landscape shifts beneath their feet. The show may attract some media stars but will not be about their stardom. Rather it’s the goals they are trying to achieve and how they get there. The show’s guests are as likely to be dynamic speakers from small- and medium-sized media influencers as from the behemoths.

Hosted by award-winning journalist and media veteran Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media, and enhanced through viewer participation, Naked Media cuts through the bloviation, challenges the conventional wisdom and gets at real issues that provide “aha” moments for the executives who are watching and participating. Whether in one-on-one interviews or panel discussions, it will explore a wealth of issues, everything from making money from the latest ad technologies to the privacy issues surrounding behavioral targeting to the buzz around social media and widgets to the financials of media deals.

The show will include a mix of live in-studio interviews, on-site events and on-demand offerings, and will include audience questions and discussion areas.

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