I’m getting back to my roots this week with lots of video stuff including my Newspaper video survey. So it was nice to get an email from James Cuff at the South Wales Echo who gave me the heads up for a video he produced as a promo for their re-design:

Your Echo through the ages [...]

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It’s grim times out there for video at the moment. The tag cloud above, generated from twitter, tells a familiar story.
As Colin Mulvany recently put it
Newspaper produced video is at a crossroads. As many U.S. publications turn inward to focus on their traditional print products, many online producers are wondering if they should continue to [...]

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I’m holed up in the Middlesbrough Central Travelodge and getting some kind of insight in to what living in halls must be like. To say the room is basic is,well, to give it more credit then it deserves. But hey, at least I have great stuff like this to look at.
From a practical stand point [...]

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Videographers flocked to catch a glimpse of a running story – picture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentish/67087395/

Tracy Boyer has an interesting post about the ethics of staging and directing contributors when shooting video. She sets out her stall in the intro
Allowing videographers to stage scenes, situations and/or actions is NOT journalism. We are here to document what we [...]

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The third of my recent new year convictions was Point-and-shoot, mojo video is the predominant form for newspaper video but organisations will still need to develop a quality video strategy
Not sure what point-and shoot is here’s my not so serious definition

Looking back over the year I’ve realised that I haven’t blogged about video very much.  [...]

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Christoph Schmitz has created a map of Norwegian newspapers using Youtube.  With mine and Mark Luckie’s we could be on our way to a world atlas!
Update: Just checked my trackbacks and found this list of polish papers with you tube sites.
Update 2: Alex Gamela has created a map of Portuguese newspapers using YouTube. Great stuff.

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Inspired by Mark S. Luckie and his fantastic map of US newspapers using youtube I thought I would give it a go for the UK. The result (nowhere near as nice as Marks) is a real mix of pipes, maps and google docs. So it isn’t neat but it kinda works. If you notice that [...]

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Michael Rosenblum @ Society of Editors 08 from Paul Bradshaw on Vimeo.
Michael Rosenblum has been doing his ’sky is falling in’ schtick again this time at the recent society of editors do. Thanks to some spiffing video from Paul Bradhaw Rosenblum’s view has been stirring up some nodding comments of agreements.
One of the things I [...]

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