NewsLook is a different way to experience the news.

Meet Lucas, our entrepreneur in residence. Like him, we may be small, but we have big ideas.

NewsLook is an Official Honoree of the 2010 Webby Awards in the News Category

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words is a video worth? NewsLook’s goal is to provide an unparalleled visual experience through premium video content. We help you find the videos that tell the best stories. Period.

News has been a passive, linear experience for too long. Whether it's produced or raw video, technology or world news video, NewsLook delivers you the emotional power of moving images by allowing you to access and discover content from the world’s leading media outlets and producers, when, where and how you want it. Our mission is to provide a better way to experience the news by focusing on three key philosophies. We empower users through variety and choice, promote the emotional and descriptive advantage video has over text, and manage information overload.

NewsLook, based in New York, was created to provide a sustainable model to help content creators, publishers and digital news consumers harness the value of professional video content and to offer a defining user experience. We utilize a hybrid approach that merges the efficiency of automation with the wisdom of experienced journalists to maintain the highest standard of journalistic integrity. NewsLook is using our Pandora-like database to build out a multi-platform, personalized news application. We are currently available on Google TV and launching on iOS and Android in 2012 along with a number of connected TV devices.

Founder & CEO

Fred Silverman

Fred is the founder of NewsLook. A pioneer of educational technology at NYU, he got his start at CBS and has been an award winning film-maker and documentarian for the past 30 years. As a news junkie, Fred started NewsLook to address the inadequacies of digital news and online video, building a central hub to access diverse, premium content. He lives in Northern Westchester County, NY with his wife and two teenage children. He is not related to the other Fred Silverman.
fred@newslook.com
Follow him on Twitter @frsilverman

Vice President of Operations

Andrew Naoum

Andrew is a founding member of NewsLook. He worked with DC-based start up Real Estate Resource Group while pursuing his MBA in Destination Management at George Washington University. As a devoted follower of lean start up movement, Andrew utilizes innovation accounting strategies to achieve validated learning for NewsLook. He strives to be the Jack Donaghy of online video and thinks that “coffee’s for closers only”.
andrew@newslook.com
Follow him on Twitter @naoumsense

CTO

Alejandro O’Farrell

Alejandro is the main architect of our video platform. He brings nearly a decade of experience on the cutting edge of online video and digital media. We don’t know exactly what he does all day; all we know is that he makes the videos play. When not writing code, he is studying his genealogical roots that date back to a little known Irish American Army unit who defected to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
dev@newslook.com

Editor

Chris Stankiewicz

Before coming to NewsLook, Chris served as a combat correspondent in The United States Marine Corps. He was embedded with US and Iraqi forces during the US “surge” of 2007 and reported from disaster relief sites in Southeast Asia. Once a D&D geek, Chris has blossomed into a social butterfly and now manages our social media.
chris@newslook.com
Follow him on Twitter @SemperStank

Manager of Business Development

Anthony Delconte

Anthony joined the NewsLook team in the middle of 2011. He is responsible for our vertical content acquisition strategy, targeting premium publishers for syndication and exploring technology partnerships. A 2010 graduate of Hamilton College, he is our resident cord cutter who wishes that the fine folks at his local telecom company would stop calling.
anthony@newslook.com
Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Gobs

Design Director

James Teow

James makes NewsLook’s vision and strategies come to life, animating our video collection and backend technology into a sleek user friendly interface. He is an interactive designer and developer whose work has been shown at Apple Keynote and earned honors at the Webbys and OMMA Awards. He has designed for Reuters, Nintendo, Stella McCartney, and Target. James is also a portrait photographer whose work appears at the top of this page.
james@newslook.com

Associate Editor

Eamon Martin

For over 12 years, Eamon Martin oversaw production and publication of multimedia nonprofit news organization The Global Report. Eamon's work has been published in numerous newspapers, magazines and websites. In 2004, he shared a Project Censored award with The Nation and Global Outlook for exposing treaty-busting by the United States. He enjoys NewsLook’s underreported stories, obscure music, and Z-grade shlock films in his spare time.
eamon@newslook.com
Follow him on Twitter @EamonMartin

General Counsel

Robert Freedman

Robert is a founding member of NewsLook. He is a well-known media and entertainment lawyer having been a senior partner at two of New York City's premier intellectual property firms. He is also a former General Counsel of WNET. Bob writes our contracts to ensure that none of our partner’s content ends up in a bad vampire movie!
robert@newslook.com

Lead Developer

Jeremy Green

Jeremy has been building web applications in one form or another for over a decade. After earning a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Oklahoma he went on to become an entrepreneur and small business owner, finally joining the NewsLook team in the fall of 2011. Jeremy’s attention to detail, when building out new features, rivals that of a legacy brew master.
jeremy@newslook.com

Associate Editor

Michael McCoy

Michael has been working as an editor in the digital video space for over five years, launching his career at start-up video news syndicate Voxant (now Grab Networks), and moving on to produce and edit top quality educational content for The Learning Annex. Michael is our blogging guru. He is the only guy in the Bronx who is a Mariner’s fan.
michael@newslook.com
Follow him on Twitter @McCoyNYC

Editorial Contributor

Jane Fortenberry

Jane is a former vice president of Corporate Property Investors. She holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and a Certificate in Producing from New York University. Jane has traveled from Argentina to Amsterdam, from Bhutan to Botswana, and to many points in between. When she is not on the road, she focuses on the financial beat and promotes NewsLook’s use of rich world perspectives.
jane@newslook.com
Follow her on Twitter @Ja_Fo

Editorial Assistant

David Metzger

Dave was the Director of Public Affairs for Pacifica Radio in the 1970’s and 80’s. He is a foreign news junkie and when not watching the news, writes mystery novels in his rambling Upper West Side apartment.
david@newslook.com

Associate Editor

Greg Shapiro

A film school graduate and writer of many short stories and plays, Greg's a human encyclopedia of everything movies, pop culture and sports. When his hair isn't turning gray from following the excruciating sports franchises of the NY Knicks and Mets, Greg can be found graying on the golf courses of America.
greg@newslook.com