USC Professor Jeremy Kagan and MHZ Networks producer Glenn Luther talk about the challenges for documentary filmmakers.
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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.
The new design for The Examiner has been steadily making its way into the existing editions (Washington and San Francisco) since mid-February. Quietly, without the usual brass bands and reader trauma. Compared to recent flashy redesigns, The Examiner represents a kind of un-design ‘ redesign’ — the goals we developed were based on a core desire to produce an upscale daily news tabloid that works hard to provide daily intelligence in a magazine-style form. A free tabloid with an upmarket quality standard is a first for a daily in the U.S.
What this also meant is we weren’t going to be designing a paper that relies on gimmicks to be noticed. All that matters is that the new design reveal the character of the new Examiner — smart, interesting and relevant to your life today.
