Adrian Monck has penned a piece of the BBC’s Journalism training website reflecting on online video.
His summing up starts in to the digital illiteracy discussion that kicked up here a few posts ago (which I want to comment on)
For all the hub-a-hubba and newsroom redesigns, newspaper power online resides with newspaper people, the younger of [...]

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If the shear number of video service related sites on the web is hard to keep up with the take a look at this great post at Read/Write web:
There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it’s easy to lose track of them all. So let’s take a look at the [...]

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Paul Bradshaw picks up on more interest around the whole newspaper video thing and, like many of us with an interest in the area, is would love newspapers maye think smarter about video and ’stop trying to make television’.
I can agree to some degree, but I think the issue is a bit more complicated than [...]

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Andrew Grant Adamson pointed me towards Lucas Grindley’s post on trying to come up with a formula to decide which stories get web coverage
A growing culture change and fear that the printed page might die are sending more reporters and editors to my desk. Everyone has an idea; a lot of which are good. Here’s [...]

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The two postings on my blog that have generated the most traffic over the last week or so have been a short piece I wrote about the problems newspaper video people are having with audio and a comment I made about a Press Gazette article about the photogs at the Croydon Advertiser creating image/audio [...]

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Once again, a quick post before heading off to a day of video-editing with the newspaper people. (hopefully more accurate today)
I have had time to catch up a little on some reading and finally read an article at OJR, Multimedia storytelling: when is it worth it?. Its part of a new column by Nora [...]

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In the rush by industry to make the move online and grasp the fog that is Web 2.0 with both hands I’ve always been suprised that Radio isnt higher up the pecking audio.
Maybe it’s one of the passive consumption mediums that makes the perfect backdrop to web browsing - perhaps radio is the journalism soundtrack [...]

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Life is busy at Dickinson Towers this week so lighter posting. I’m in the process of moving house, but on a less stressful note I have the pleasure of spending another two days with journos on my video training course. I’m also realising that I’m very slow in adding to my Blogroll, which I need [...]

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