News editors are slowly realising that video on the web is not TV. And interestingly, it is often newspapers that are leading the way. In this clip on Beet.tv, Vivian Schiller, general manager at the NYTimes.com, explains how she had to unlearn much of what she knew about video journalism after years in TV news at CNN and Discovery. For example, TV folks try to avoid having a talking head,
PDF It’s the time of the year when news editors will be thinking about their priorities for the coming year. For online news sites, is it going to be video, user-generated content or social media? For at least one UK newspaper website, The Telegraph, 2008 is going to be all about video. Edward Roussel, the digital editor at Telegraph Media Group says this is the site’s biggest priority for next year,
The BBC has joined with other UK broadcasters to offer a commercial portal to British television shows. The on-demand service, under the working title of Kangaroo, brings together the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. All three broadcasters already offer programmes over the Internet but only in the UK. This international venture reflects the strength of British broadcasting. Ashley Highfield, director of BBC Future Media and Technology. offers an insight into
The BBC announced plans to put pre-roll ads on its broadband news video a few months back. For a few weeks, all the ads were for other BBC programmes. But now, the first commercial ads have appeared on the video. A commercial for Delta Airlines is on video about Bush’s comments on the Armenian genocide bill and on video of a school shooting in the US, as well as several
Today was the first day of our redesigned core course at the UBC School of Journalism in Vancouver. Entitled Multiplatform Journalism, it seeks to instruct the students in the key intellectual and practical skills they will need to operate as a professional journalist in a multimedia industry. The course aims to move away from training the students for jobs as a print journalist or as a radio journalist. Instead we
Canadians are spending more time online and less time watching television, finds the CRTC’s annual Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report. This is hardly surprising, given that the 70% of Canadian homes are now online, up by 6% from the previous year. And high-speed access is also on the increase, rising from 36% to 60% over the past four years. But the Internet is not killing TV. According to the CRTC report,
ABC’s Merry Miller interviews actress Holly Hunter about an upcoming TV show: (Via Lost Remote) Print
At times it seems like every newspaper is rushing headlong into video. So this posting by Mindy McAdams is well-timed. It offers video clips in Flash of a panel discussion about video on newspaper websites. The participants, including Chet Rhodes from WashingtonPost.com and Regina McCombs from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, explain their approach to video, show examples and tackle issues of training and workflow. As an extra enticement, the
Online video is set to grow and grow, according to a report by ABI Research. It predicts that the number of people watching video content over the Internet will triple to nearly 1 billion by 2012. ABI Research says “this growth will create a demand for new and evolved monetization models that will help create a multi-billion dollar industry in coming years”. This will hearten news organisations such as The
At a meet-up of members of the Online News Association in London on Thursday, BBC News website technology editor Darren Waters offered an insight into its recent project to test on-demand video. Many might assume that the BBC, as an unrivalled TV and radio broadcaster, would have plenty of video to offer online. This pilot set out to investigate what kind of video worked best online, moving away from the