Storytelling with video
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Feb 22nd, 2007 • Category: Journalism, Video, online newsRobert Freeman has an excellent take on the debate on the use of video on tradtional print news sites. He writes at MediaBizTech:
Rather than watching the news on TV and attempting to emulate the format, these publications should start by using video to illustrate better the stories they are already writing.
He provides a great example of the way it can be done from the Eastern Daily Press where a video with sound but no voiceover enhances the text on the page where it is embedded.
Andrew Grant-Adamson is Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist who now teaches a new generation of writers, subs and editors at the University of Westminster.
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