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kanalOne: The Meganewsportal

Yet another news portal on Indonesia will open on the 24th of this month. The name is kanalOne and it claims itself to be “A to-be-born megaportal designed to produce fast and in-depth news and information in two languages, Bahasa Indonesia and English.

“This online media,” it continues to say, “will creatively combine texts, images, audio, and videos, in covering national and international issues with a high journalistic standard. kanalOne can be accessed via mobile phones or PDAs. We envision this media as a co-effort in building and enlightening our Nation through smart, sharp, balanced, and entertaining journalism.”

A journalist friend of Maverick said the megaportal has been “hijacking” journalists from other media. If you look at the “about kanalOne” section, there are many familiar names from the existing media. Our source also said that KanalOne prefers to hire journalists from Tempo (newspaper and magazines) and, not so surprisingly, detik.com (their soon-to-be arch enemy).

Words on the net said that Bakrie is behind this project. So you have one superlatively person, a super connected minister and now an online meganewsportal magnate to boot. Enough to make one megalomaniac.

By adwi | 08 Jul 08 | Media | 626 Views

9 Responses to “kanalOne: The Meganewsportal”

Tuhu Nugraha Dewanto | July 10th, 2008 at 9:42 am

Jadi penasaran dengan kanalone, jangan-jangan nanti dibawah ekspektasi. Sejauh ini gw sih paling suka dengan kompas.com. Punya banyak pilihan, dan gak bikin pusing kayak detik.com, yang walopun udah redesain tapi menurut gw masih gak oke…

You can also read Tuhu Nugraha Dewanto’s blog post: Menghitung Online PR Value???
adwi | July 14th, 2008 at 2:44 am

Hai Tuhu,

Iya, bikin penasaran emang.

Tapi yang jelas persaingan media online bakal makin ketat, nih. Informasi makin cepat berputar.
BARRY | July 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm

Jika coverage news tentang dunia international, bukankah sudah banyak channel yang ke arah sana? Atau ini akan menjadi media Indonesia dalam bahasa Inggris? Hmm..

Bukanya tanggal berapa ya? 08/08/08?
hery | August 7th, 2008 at 9:50 am

Kanalone ini milik bang Rizal, Nirwan Bakri atau Bang One ya…..??
mahardi saputra | August 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Success to Kanalone!
be a leader and the best just like in your previous company!yeah mas choel
-Men’s Folio Indonesia and World of Watches Indonesia Magz.
rudy | August 20th, 2008 at 8:52 am

Seukses buat kanalone….semoga media ini tidak hanya hangat2 tahi ayam artinya tidak hanya untuk kepentingan Bakrie Group doang dalam rangka menghadapi pertarungan politik 2009. Apalagi denger2 tukang IT nya didatengin jauh2 dari negerinya Zidan.
diana | September 15th, 2008 at 6:05 am

kalo situs indo berbahasa inggris dah banyak tuh kayak newsdiscover.com,dll.tapi sejauh ni yang guwe suka kalo situs IT kompas, beritanet, detik, ame MI. jadi guwe pikir ni kanalone harus siap-siap ngadepin persaingan ketat,palagi masih baru. yah bolehlah, mo diambil dari Perancis ato Amerika ato Indonesia kek, nyang penting mutu isinya.Siip and sukses dah.

You can also read diana’s blog post: Humor Lagi Sial
adwi | September 18th, 2008 at 7:37 am

Terima kasih semua komentarnya…

Udah sempat ketemu beberapa teman KanalOne di lapangan juga, sih…

Dia-dia juga rupanya… hehe…
And KanalOne joins the fray « Unspun | September 18th, 2008 at 8:32 am

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