Storytelling did not escape Mindy McAdams as she learned to be a video journalist at a boot camp. Her 1 minute 30 second look at an El Salvadorian restaurant in Washington DC provided a cameo of immigrant life in the city.
Although I have never been to south or central America I [...]
I haven’t been able to find a copy of the new-look Press Gazette yet, so no comment on that. The website has been spruced up too and looks good with clear navigation, but still lacking full content online.
Of course, with an audience that universally has access to the web they need to [...]
The danger for some newspapers in crafting video strategy is that to produce video they are rushing to replicate a TV model of production and in some cases presentation: Video plus legacy…. Newspapers need to start thinking like entreprenuers, Kevin Anderson writes.
The blogs editor of the Guardian is commenting on CBS’s [...]
Bill Gates has been looking at the fairly near future of the media and his prognosis is equally bad for scheduled broadcasting and print on paper. Speaking to the the Microsoft Strategic Account Summit this week he forecast that the “transition point” for the move from paper to electronic reading would come in the next [...]
My 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 [...]
Guardian Media Group has a lot of expertise in doing online video so it’s a pity it is not shared around all their papers. A bulletin by the Reading Evening Post’s sports editor, David Wright, is a “new contender for the worst newspaper video” according to Paul Bradshaw, who teaches online journalism at the University [...]
Robert 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 [...]
The two national newspaper websites re-launched last week offering lots of video as well as text and stills, The Times and the Mirror, have settled down and ironed out technical glitches, but not all of them. The Mirror’s choice of video content is inexplicable: almost entirely US from AP. The tone and content of much [...]
