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Newspapers beginning to ‘get’ video
At ONA 2006, WashingtonPost.com’s Chet Rhodes explains how the newspaper is training its reporters how to shoot video. And the training takes just 55 minutes, Rhodes says. Newspapers all across the country are doing the same (or training their still photographers), and in one respect they have an advantage over TV sites: they’re learning how to produce video for the web, not TV. And yes folks, there’s a difference. Jeff Jarvis explains how his City University of New York class enjoys WashingtonPost.com’s video because it’s “still somewhat raw, not overproduced.” This is a key point that alludes most TV people who were raised on concepts like urgency, pacing and “broadcast quality.” I wouldn’t be surprised that newspapers ultimately end up innovating just as many successful, original web video concepts as TV sites. If not more.
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‘Everyone in our newsroom’ wants to blog
Speaking at ONA 2006, Washington Post editor Len Downie said the internet and its 24/7 news cycle has “improved journalism a lot” and changed his newsroom for the better. “Everyone in our newsroom wants to be a blogger,” he said. And what about blogs outside the newsroom? “Blogs are not competitors and not problems,” he said. “Instead we have a very interesting symbiotic relationship. Our largest driver of traffic is Matt Drudge.”
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The young and the news
If you want to feel old, ask some young people about how they consume news. An ONA Saturday morning panel featured four “digital natives” ranging from 12 to 20 years old who’ve grown up always living in a technological world. Dale Steinke reports below…
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Holovaty: ‘Journalism is broken’
In a well-attended ONA panel on automation this morning, WashingtonPost.com’s Adrian Holovaty, creator of the well-known automated Chicagocrime.org database, asserted “journalism is broken.” No, not the financial scandal, fact-checking, stock price-depreciating kind of broken. “Journalism is broken because we collect so much information and we throw it out every day.” Full report from Dale Steinke in DC follows…
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CNN gets into the events business
CNN has started a new events division to hold a series of panels and conferences on newsworthy events. CNN staff will serve as speakers and moderators, and CNN advertisers will sponsor many of the events. The first event out of the gate is called CNN Inspire Summit, designed to salute women for achievements in fields like politics, medicine and philanthropy. “Consumption of media is changing as we speak,” said Greg D’Alba, chief operating officer at the advertising sales and marketing unit of CNN in New York, part of the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner.
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