German website DerWesten has picked up on my video survey results in a blog post comparing their times with my results.
Markus Huendgen blogged about results comparing them to a breakdown of their production times for a Halloween video they created*:

Preparation (accreditation etc.) about 1h
Map (food Essen after [...]

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So, the responses to my second little survey about video have slowed enough for me to put out some results.
I tried to expand on some of the areas from the first survey that had caused debate, in particular points raised by the Newspaper video yahoo group. So here are some of the headlines just to [...]

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As I said in my last post, my little survey has kicked up quite a bit of comment.  My 1 hour of edit for 1 minute of video was especially vexing for some who feared that this may create unrealistic demands from ‘managers’.
Although I do have some figures from the survey about who is doing [...]

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Update
The results of part 2 of this survey are now upResults are still trickling in but I thought I would publish a few results from my little video survey.
Some broad results:

The average length for video is between 2 -3 minutes
The average production time is between 2 -4 hours
The most common camera used in newsrooms [...]

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Update: Two of the questions in the survey refer to journalists and photographers. One respondent noted that photographers are journalists too and perhaps Reporter would have been a better word. I agree but haven’t changed it for the sake of consistency of the survey. It’s a valid point though. Update
A bit of a request for help [...]

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