Saying no to video?
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Hopefully you read this already. If not it’s worth your time. Koci started a well needed discussion with his recent article on MultimediaShooter to which Colin responsed with a list of changes papers need to make.
I agree with a lot of them including my hate for watching videos in a little window. You also ever try to find a multimedia piece more than a few days old on a newspaper website? Good luck.
A few quotes from Koci:
And no matter how hard I try, it’s just not working. We don’t seem to be making the kind of money you said we would and people aren’t really watching. You said video would save newspapers, I distinctly remember you saying this at your speech at ASN.
I love journalism and would’ve done anything to save the profession (and MY job). There WAS gold in the hills for some and maybe there’s some left, but not for most newspapers. Because, once again, our beloved industry came late to the party.
The viewer doesn’t know or care if the image moves like video or is a well paced audio slide show, they want a good story. Period.
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Tags: multimedia, newspapers, photojournalism, video
