Newspaper text and video debte
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 9th, 2007 • Category: Journalism, Newspapers, Online, VideoMy colleague David Dunkley Gyimah has an interesting post on the suggestion that “newspaper reporters are now video editors“. I am not going to try to summarise what he says but it is well worth debating.
Over at journalism.co.uk there is a story about the development of TV services at the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant which is using a mix of bought-in breaking news and their own features.
They have, according to the paper, designed the video interface so that it can be watched from the couch using a remote control. That is about people sharing the experience of watching rather than leaning towards the computer screen alone.
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