Via Romenesko and Beet.tv comes this crisp interview with Chet Rhodes, Assistant Managing Editor for News Video at the washingtonpost.com. He is a former TV news guy and it is interesting to hear him say that up until now the paper has focused on training reporters and only now has issued five consumer-grade VJ cams to stills shooters.
I like how how he is thinking three years out and understands how Web VJ differs from broadcast TV news in many significant ways. What I don’t hear here in his comments is how the paper and Web site plan to integrate web video reportage from it’s users and readers. Certainly you can have a lot more Web video if you allow your audience to contribute to clips of burning cars on the freeway rather than dispatching staffers to cover these events exclusively. Thoughts? This works in other markets with extraordinary success (24sata in Zagreb, for example is full of reader-submitted video clips of such spot news events and has quadrupled its Web traffic over the last year)
Here’s to the Web VJ future in all of its rich story-telling and social narrative engagement potential.
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