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Worth a look 20 Nov

2007-11-19T22:58:00.001Z

The Outernet - Integrated Multimedia VideoJournalism: The video journalist Decree [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:51 AM CST

One to save and savour. Videojournalism guru David Dunkley Gyimah has produced a 23-point (and growing) video journalism manifesto. It's a call to arms and two fingers in the direction of the "professionals [who] tell you it is impossible to be multi-skilled."

Diamond Road Online [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:43 AM CST

A fascinating development of interactive journalism that has grown out of a television documentary series, Diamond Road Online is an 'interactive documentary that learns from your choices and grows from the community.'

Mercury News Photo » Where We Live » Blog Archive [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:39 AM CST

San Jose Mercury News has a cool interactive panoroma - in the style of a collage - focusing on a small town. It uses software created by a company called Vuvox.

Code Couture releases TextTime: a revolutionized word count - Editors Weblog [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:31 AM CST

Instead of using wordcount to measure the length of text, this software estimates how much time any given piece will take to read. I can hear the news editor now: "Give me 72 seconds on Brown's environment speech. You've got ten minutes."

CNET TV's debut

2007-11-19T15:50:00.000Z

Today I've mostly been watching the first UK site to put professionally-produced video content at its heart. CNET TV is the latest from what claims to be the largest online-only publisher in the UK, whose sites reach 9 million unique users across the country. Its aimed at enthusiasts in technology, music, computergaming, film and tv - all of which have there own 'channels'. Here's the trailer:

Unsurprisingly, there's not masses of content up there yet - it is day one, after all - but it's still enough to get the idea of what's going to be on offer. Each channel has weekly episodes of its own flagship programmes, as well as interviews, news reports and packages from around the place. Its all highly-polished stuff and unashamedly modelled on tried and tested TV techniques. So on the technology channel, for example, we get Rory Reid's review of the Toyota Prius in a package that wouldn't look out of place on Top Gear. Likewise Andrew Lim's news report of the iPhone's arrival in London could grace any television news bulletin. Less slick (and less expensive) is the pair of silicon.com journalists discussing social networking - but you've still got to love that image quality.
What's perhaps surprising is that there's little evidence so far of huge innovation in the form that this wealth of content takes. That may come with time as CNET lets its people loose on some more experimental storytelling techniques.
Revenue will come from advertising - HP is signed up as exclusive launch sponsor - and sponsored links (including some from the BBC: are they allowed to spend our licence money on such things?) at the bottom of each video page.
Let's hope it'll be enough to pay for all that expensive production and on-screen talent.

Worth a look 16 Nov

2007-11-16T19:58:00.001Z

Worth a look, 16 Nov

Crime map - bay area news [del.icio.us]

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 10:14 AM CST

An award-winning piece of multimedia interactivity from the Bay Area News Group. A number of US papers are making good use of mapping community stories, particularly using their crime data. This is a prime example.

News.blog: YouTube tests high-quality video, News at CNET.co.uk [del.icio.us]

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 05:33 AM CST

THe experiment "will change user experience"

Journalists must unlearn misconceptions to improve writing - Editors Weblog [del.icio.us]

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 05:22 AM CST

Three misconceptions: that kids have short attention spans; that they don't want detail; that they can't understand maths or data

Feels like fall at MultimediaShooter [del.icio.us]

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 04:30 AM CST

"New-wave vignetting": a term to add to the growing dictionary of storytelling techniques.

Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday CNET News.com [del.icio.us]

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 04:26 AM CST

e-book reader will also display newspaper digital editions

Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers [del.icio.us]

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 04:24 AM CST

Data as journalism, journalism as data

Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies [del.icio.us]

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 04:23 AM CST

"Contrary to what you might think, the first thing users look at on a web site isn't the images."

How to strike creatively II

2007-11-16T15:47:00.000Z

Adrian Monck has embedded a funny YouTube clip from the strike
by Hollywood writers. Here's another one that's doing the viral rounds. Doubtless the NUJ will be taking note of this new picket line weapon.

Worth a look 15 Nov

2007-11-14T20:27:00.001Z

Worth a look 15 Nov

Los Angeles Times - Marlboro Marine [del.icio.us]

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 06:32 AM CST

Great multimedia piece from the LA Times. Photographer Louis Sinco talks about his iconic photo of 'Marlboro Marine' Blake and follows him as he comes to terms with life after leaving Iraq

Cincinnati.Com Data Center: CinciNavigator [del.icio.us]

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 04:33 AM CST

Geotagging by the Cincinnati Enquirer

Editors: Remove the Online Blinders editor on the verge [del.icio.us]

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 04:15 AM CST

Why do so few newspapers send their video to networks such as YouTube?

How to get the measure of online video Media The Guardian [del.icio.us]

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 04:13 AM CST

Video accounts for 10 per cent of UK viewing

Long-Form Video Gaining Viewers on the Web [del.icio.us]

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 04:12 AM CST

Anything over 20 mins counts as long form, and more than 6million people watched such videos online in October 07. Usage is doubled since August

Dallas Morning News creates video trailer for newspaper series - CyberJournalist.net - Online News Association - Future of Media [del.icio.us]

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 04:09 AM CST

Innovative attempt to bring in readers of a new newspaper series

Journalist stares at screen. Live

2007-11-13T16:26:00.000Z

Just having a look around blogtv.com, a new videocasting-live-for-the-masses service, when what should I stumble across but recorded footage of Oliver Luft of journalism.co.uk and his experiment with the beta of the service. Hard to tell what Oliver makes of it - most of it seems to be him staring silently at the screen and typing - so we'll just have to wait to see his published piece for the full verdict.

Also of note today: dotSub, a video site that specialises in adding - or rather, encouraging users to add - multilingual translations to uploaded videos.

My sex change confession

2007-11-09T17:03:00.000Z

[Transcript] As you can see I've had something of a makeover this week. Alright then a complete sex change. It's thanks to Sitepal, whose service allows me to get an animated character to do the work of my videoblog for me. I can change how I look, how I sound. I can even translate myself into languages I don't speak. Such as Japanese.
Or I can use my own voice, while taking on the guise of various current and former US presidents.
Thanks Bill. And by the way, I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Sitepal services start at around a fiver a month. Which might even put it within in reach of the odd blogger. And most of them are odd, let's face it.

Right, not much time this week so just a couple of clips to show you. First is a recent winner from the National Press Photographer’s Association in the US, by Everett McEwan from KWGN-TV in Denver. The guys at Multimedia Shooter consider it their new benchmark for quality news video, and it's a superb example of great narrative editing.
It's just 2 minutes long, so do check out the full version to see whether there's a happy ending.

This week’s featured multimedia journalism project comes from News.com web site in Australia. It's called Culture in Crisis and is an impressive, detailed look, using audio slides, text and video, at how aboriginal people have been treated in the country and what the future holds for them.

Finally a warning from our health and safety department. Mobile technology can be an alluring concept, but you can take things too far. Unless you want to film a multiple pile up with yourself as the star, don't try this at home.

Flash marketing

2007-11-09T10:09:00.000Z

A shameless bit of promotion for my work for the University of Kent. This is a Flash presentation I've done to hook some students in for the degree course at the Centre for Journalism that I'm helping to set up.
Feel free to pass the link on to anyone you might know who is considering journalism as a career.

8 Nov links

2007-11-07T23:24:00.001Z

Create your own virtual talking character

Sitepal enables you to design your own animated speaking character for your web site or blog. Genius. I may take next week off and get my alter ego to do the videoblog.

Is Dudley Castle haunted?: Express & Star

Posted: 07 Nov 2007 09:44 AM CST

File under: 'Questions to which the answer is no'. But gives the videojournalist an interesting problem. How to capture strange 'glowing orbs' on camera with the lights out.

The Star Online : Star Car

Posted: 07 Nov 2007 09:28 AM CST

Via the Editor's Weblog - this is a great idea from The Star in Cleveland. The Star Car is a mobile newsroom that follows stories, and readers can check its progress and view its past stops on an interactive map. Question is: does it chase ambulances?

Today I've mainly been watching...

2007-11-06T23:24:00.001Z

Well I've finally sussed out the complicated work-around that allows me to post my Delicious bookmarks as a daily feed to my Blogger account. Its about time Delicious and Blogger got together to sort that ludicrous anomaly out. So I'll be trying to post a regular-ish list of links to interesting-ish bits of web video/convergent journalism through the week, and I'll still round off the week with a videoblog cutting together snippets of the most interesting stuff.

kyte: Channel View - Scobleizer

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 07:51 AM CST

This is what happens when bloggers become addicted. Don't videocast and drive. The man's a maniac.

The ten most addictive online flash games ever made - Crave at CNET.co.uk

Posted: 06 Nov 2007 04:34 AM CST

Purely in the interests of research, you understand.

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 08:23 AM CST

A vital list of applications to clutter up the desktop just a little more.

Crushed by Inertia: The Daily Show...Well, A Daily Show. Maybe not THE Daily Show.

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 07:46 AM CST

Trailer for this new internet video tech news show includes great pastiches of a few other web video classics - including ZeFrank and AskaNinja.

News Video Done Right! at MultimediaShooter

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 05:31 AM CST

Cody's Rescue KWGGN-TV, Denver. MultimediaShooter's "new benchmark for spot news video, no stand-up or narration, all subject driven and edited like Tarantino or Scorsese".

PJNet - Blog - CNN to Teach Journalism in Second Life

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 04:33 AM CST

If only I could actually get to grips with Second Life, I might be able to find it.

Revver blog

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 04:31 AM CST

Design improvements and new features from the video content site.

Does high-definition video matter online? - Lost Remote TV Blog

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 04:28 AM CST

Apparently it doesn't right now. The question is, will it later?

Video Workload survey results by andydickinson.net

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 03:56 AM CST

Fascinating survey of how long video journalism takes to produce.

The Roanoke Times: MusicCast

Posted: 02 Nov 2007 12:22 PM CDT

A good regional newspaper idea from The Roanoke Times - the US paper with a journalist on the payroll whose job title is 'data delivery editor'. Its MusicCast brings local bands into a local studio to perform songs on camera for the paper's site.

Joost in time, it's vlog 8

2007-11-02T13:42:00.000Z

Hi welcome to the (transcript of the) latest videolog featuring various bits of web video journalism from around the net. I'll start this week with serious plaudits for a serious piece of work from the Guardian. The newspaper's Katine Project is a highly ambitious attempt to transform the lives of people living in one of the poorest places on the planet, a village in rural Uganda.
It contains, as you would expect, news and blogs from the village highlighting different areas of its life. But there's also a fantastic rich interactive map - the virtual village - which brilliantly brings the sights and sounds of Katine to life.
It's probably the best piece of convergent journalism I’ve seen from a UK newspaper – or any newspaper for that matter - so far.

I've also been taking a look at Joost, the video on demand service from the people who brought Skype to the world. Now for a start I'm wary of anything which requires me to download a new application – my desktop's cluttered up with enough redundant rubbish as it is – but I bit the bullet with this one in the name of journalistic exploration. Joost has signed deals with some major journalism organisations, including Reuters and ITN. No sign of any ITN stuff yet, but Reuters is providing weekly entertainment and technology bulletins. Joost has a nice interface, but so far lacks enough really compelling content. Until there’s more to watch, any further visits will be hard to, er, joostify.

The Bristol Evening Post is part of an interesting new video project. It's streaming live video footage of meetings of the city council in a brave attempt to bring local democracy into readers homes. The Post reckons around 200 people tuned in for the first one, and the video remains available to watch afterwards on the site. But at 3 hours, I suggest you nip out for a packet of pro plus tablets first. Now what would really help is a Post journalist to edit it down into highlights so Bristoleans could find the bits that really interest them.

Ustream is a network that allows you to publish live streaming video on the internet.
So instead of producing this brilliantly crafted and immaculately edited videolog, I’d be able to talk to you in real time and you could contact me live to tell me what you think. Don’t think I’m quite ready for that yet – but I can certainly see some applications – conferences, for example – where it might come in handy.

Incidentally, new viewer Joshua pulled me up last week for not giving Kyte.tv a fair crack of the whip and opting instead for a cheap banana joke. Fair point. And actually I found myself watching some footage by tech blogger Robert Scoble on Kyte this week. So there is clearly more to it than fruit, and it is worth keeping an eye on.

Speaking of Scoble, I see that reports of his company’s demise were not just premature but downright falsehoods. I'm glad about that, not just because it shows there is a market for the one-man blogger and videoblogger, but also because it gives some great insight into technology that’s coming our way. Like this example:
That's Stanford Professor Marc Levoy who is working on a camera that allows you to refocus pictures long after you’ve taken them. I know a few Fleet Street snappers who'd pay good money for that.

Finally, here’s a couple of earnest young men debating the modern problem of information overload on Google Video (at about 8 mins 40)...
That's Marshall McLuhan and Norman Mailer, filmed in 1968. They should go far.

We apologise for the interruption in transmission

2007-10-23T08:52:00.000Z

Yes, well it's been a while. I’d love to tell you what hugely important work has been keeping me from your screens, but you'll have to sign a non-disclosure agreement first. Just click the NDA button to the left and our team of lawyers will take one round to the local post office picket line.

My new academic stipend means I have a little more time to indulge myself, so I'm making an audacious bid to return to the vlogosphere. The plan, such as it is, will be to do a weekly video blog, along with a rough transcript containing the various links - which is what this is. And perhaps the occasional list of links to interesting video projects.

So what's been going on in the world of web video journalism in the intervening months? Well quite a lot actually. It’ll take me a while to catch up, so you’ll just have to forgive the fact that some of these examples may be a little long in the tooth.

One notable trend is the launch over the summer of a number of online tools to help the web video enthusiast. Some more compelling than others. Take kyte.tv, whose founder explains here what it's all about. Sort of. With the help of a banana. Is it me, or is he not quite convinced?

Also new – to me, anyway - is Friction TV, a UK site that specialises in video comment. It's the online equivalent of going down to speaker's corner to get harangued by opinionated loudmouths. Anyone can upload their ranting videos to the site, and its staff also have their own pet subjects, such as Project FreeSheet – a bid to close down the free London newspapers… including a familiar face collared for a vox pop at what looks like Waterloo Station. Note how Peter Snow has to cross his arms when he hasn’t got a swingometer to play with.

Like any journalist I'm always on the lookout for new ways to be lazy, so my antennae perked up when I saw this new search device featured on The Scoble Show. Spock.com is a new search engine that’s specifically set up to help you find information about people, as one of its boffins explains. I tried it out with a search on 'British Newspaper Owner' to see what it threw up. Three of the top four results were: Richard Desmond, Robert Maxwell and Conrad Black. Well they might be a perfect cross section of the good men and true who control our press – but I guess it demonstrates that spock.com has some way to go before it’s much use outside the states. By the way, you can take control of your own spock.com identity - which might make the search 'British journalism blogger' a bit less sparse. Just a thought.

So much for the technology, but how are the journalists out there faring?

It's one thing as a regional reporter to learn how to shoot and edit a bit of video for your paper’s web site. It's quite another to do the whole thing clinging on to the siderail of a round-the-world yacht. So it’s a full naval salute to the Hull Daily Mail's Jane Harper, who has just touched land in Brazil.

Now it also seems that there’s a new question for news editors to ask themselves. Namely, should you allow your reporters to sing? For the New York Times's David Pogue evidently asked and the answer was yes. His musical report on the launch of the iphone is now a cult classic. And he gets away with it – just - mainly thanks to some game volunteers he finds on the street. The one with the deep voice is from a Broadway show, apparently.

And finally, the Onion TV's news anchor gives a perfect lesson in how to handle viewer interactivity.

For previous videoblogs, see here.

Vlog#5

2007-04-03T14:33:00.000Z

My fifth vlog about videojournalism on the web is now ready for any feedback you might care to throw. This week's action-packed adventure features:

Onion News Network

The Croydon Advertiser (and here)

The Guardian

The Spokesman Review

The New York Times via Gawker

A gratuitous reference to the Big Lebowski

Mixpo

and

Guido Fawkes on Newsnight

Video to star in Time Inc's digital future

2007-03-30T12:03:00.000Z

Some interesting detail at Online Media Daily of how video is featuring at the heart of Time Inc's magazines strategy. The company has a new TV studio dedicated to moving image content, and magazine sites including CNNMoney.com, SI.com and Essence all have doing interesting video-based success stories to tell, according to the executive vice-prez.
It all, of course, chimes poignantly with the same company's recent closure of one of the world's best-known print magazine brands, Life.

OhMyNews goes video

2007-03-30T11:31:00.000Z

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that citizen journalism pioneer OhmyNews is to invest heavily in a revamp that will include a greater emphasis on video reporting. Reinventing news / Korean 'citizen journalism' site faces challenges

Taipei Times - archives

2007-03-30T11:21:00.000Z

I've just been sent a link to a rather familiar looking piece at the Taipei Times. Wouldn't mind, but they didn't even include a link back to me.

Anthony Loyd interview

2007-03-30T10:20:00.000Z

If you have time to spare, drop by the Frontline Club's site to watch this streamed interview with Anthony Loyd, foreign corresondent for the Times, who discusses becoming a war reporter in Bosnia with no journalism experience, his memories of mentor Kurt Schork, and how he fought his addiction to heroin.

If you have less time to spare, drop by chez Adrian Monck, who has embedded a very funny video skit on TV news, courtesy of Jibjab.

Binge blogging

2007-03-29T08:59:00.000Z

My blog backoffice is awash with unpublished drafts and lists of links - some of them pretty old - so in the best traditions of British binge drinking I'm chucking all the still-vaguely-relevant ones here in one go. It's an erratic selection of shorts, and will probably end up rather blurred towards the end.

First up, I'm really grateful to cartoonist Matt Buck for this brilliant illustration of where many of us are at:

I probably go on about the Washington Post too much, but today they've revamped the web site to Increase Emphasis on Video. Always worth a look.
Meanwhile here's something it published a while ago. It's one of those cool uses of googlemaps that works beautifully. Clinton's Golden Voice Bill Clinton's Paid Speeches washingtonpost.com .

Via Andy Dickinson's blog, here's proof that radio journalists are also waking up to the power of web video: Why video is a must for radio stations

Martin Stabe reckons I'll eventually work out why he and others are so excited about Twitter, although it seems his argument may have taken a hit at the British Press Awards. Sorry Martin, but this graphic courtesy of Wired says it all for me...

Like many other people I followed the Scoble-hosted debate about the death of the newspaper. I also like this from Information Architects Japan: 10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed

A completely irrelevant post for here, but I'm excited to find that the guy from Askaninja.com, one of the World's Finest Bits of Web Nonsense, is unmasked on a site called The Vloggies Show.
Actually it's not totally irrelevant. Ninja is a fantastic example of how a community can be built (and advertising dollars earned) from a simple idea, brilliantly executed, in which you involve the audience all the way along.

Now here's a great bit of regional journalism storytelling from the Bay Aread News Group in the US. Ripples of a Homicide tells the story from multiple angles of the death of a 23-year-old local man, using audio, stills photography and video. It allows the users to pick their way through the story of how an apparently unremarkable death impacts on family, friends and the wider community. Beutifully done. I'll try to squeeze it on to my next videoblog. There's something similar, although not quite so complex, here: Democrat & Chronicle: Audio Slideshow

This sounds encouraging: Online videos pull in ad money - Editors Weblog. Although by contrast, here's the story of how Rocketboom (one of the web's apparently most successful videocasts) is finding the commercial going tough despite having 200k daily viewers.

I found this little tutorial pretty useful. Particularly now I've discovered the joys of the H264 codec... MultimediaShooter » The Dark Art of video compression

An explanation from Silicon Valley Sleuth: Broadband finally gets its killer app on the power of video.

Frederator has been a regular on my video ipod for months, but I've only just discovered that the people behind it have other web shows too, including Threadbanger, Fast Lane Daily and PulpSecret. Worth keeping an eye on to see whether web 'formats' can really take off: next new networks: our networks

And finally I've just discovered a whizzy little start-up called Mixpo, which I'm testing out for my next videoblog. It might just save me having to relearn Flash...

Oh and by the way, it took the Guardian a further 24 hours or so to work out how to post the video (see post below) on to the relevant page. But they got there eventually. Perhaps some of their £1m video investment will be spent teaching the 'cut' and 'paste' commands...

Guardian video/vlog#4

2007-03-26T08:30:00.000Z

This week's vlog is a bit of a cheat. I've done a piece for today's Guardian and it has a video to go with it - although for some reason the video is not yet appearing on their web site. Am trying to discover why. Anyway, I'm posting it here too as this week's videoblog.

It features:
Friendly Fire cockpit video - The Sun (click on ‘see moment brits were hit’ in right hand menu.)

Red Hot Rails - San Jose Mercury News

Travis Fox's Darfur report - Washington Post

Challenge Lup - The Sun

Daily Telegraph

New York Times

Vlog#3

2007-03-20T13:07:00.000Z

The difficult' third videolog is now live here.
Featuring:

Comic Relief
Belfast Telegraph TV
Welwyn and Hatfield Times
Nottingham Evening Post
Ananova (sort of)
Twittervision
and ZeFrank

Audio clean-up

2007-03-16T13:17:00.000Z

I'm having some technical difficulties with the sound-track to a video I'm working on for a client. I didn't have my external microphone on for one bit of footage, and so the only audio is from the camera's built-in mic. The result is there's a horrible background buzz that's really intrusive. If anyone happens to know of any good audio software that will help me clean it up, I'd be grateful for a pointer.

Poynter Online - Thursday Edition: Learning From an Expert in Online Video

2007-03-16T09:56:00.000Z

The Washington Post's Travis Fox has done it again, says Al Tomkins at Poynter Online . The award-winning 'backpack journalist' has just returned from Darfur and produced a powerful report featuring video and some amazing panoramic stills. It's really worth a look, not just for the story itself but also for the quality of presentation that the Washington Post brings to this kind of interactive feature. I haven't yet come across a publisher or broadcaster that's doing it better.
I've featured Fox's work both here and in the videoblog already. But as Tomkins says, this may just be his best yet.

Vlog#2

2007-03-12T23:34:00.000Z

My second effort in the, er, vlogosphere is now available.

Have had some technical problems with the compression, but got there in the end, I hope.

I'll come back to add the links to the clips I've used in the piece shortly.

More feedback gratefully accepted.

I was planning to get to the AOP video conference tomorrow, but have to go to Paris to interview a supermodel instead. Such a pity.

Guardian CCTV scoop

2007-03-08T22:48:00.000Z

The Guardian's done pretty well out of its CCTV video footage of the police's heavy-handed arrest of Toni Cromer outside a Sheffield nightclub. After featuring on Wednesday's Newsnight, it was still leading the BBC Ten news tonight (Thursday), with suitable branding and acknowledments to the newspaper.
(Incidental question: did the Guardian run the footage on its site before Wednesday's Newsnight broadcast it? The story is dated as Thursday - the day it appeared on the newspaper's front page).
Another newspaper scoop in what would once have been tv-only territory.
It seems to have acquired the vid from a Sheffield pressure group called The Monitoring Group North, whose aim is to eliminate racial harrassment in the area, and which is also running it on its site.

'All will be lost if we end up doing TV on the web'

2007-03-07T09:36:00.000Z

The winners from the video photography category of the National Press Photographers Association has sparked a debate among US journalists about whether newspaper web video should be judged by the same criteria as television journalism.
Al Tomkins' post at Poynter sets the tone:
Poynter Online - Tuesday Edition: 2007 Best of Television Photojournalism Contest
And here's a sample of the ensuing debate from the Newspaper Video discussion forum:

I see online video and multimedia as more like underground cinema. More grit, more edge, your grandfather would not understand it type of thing. Arty. Like a quaint one of coffee shop. Not starbucks. Edgy. The story is told, but not by the numbers like the TV dudes are used to doing.Technically I am sure the best TV Journalists are better at this, than I can ever hope to be. I would hope I am a much better print photojournalist than they are. But both mediums are losing to a changing market place. A hyper fragmented market place, so they don't have the answers either.All will be lost if we end up doing TV on the web. It has to be more like short film. Maybe they would like us to do stand up interviews in front of a darkened courthouse under streetlights in the snow. I guess my bottom line is its not TV and never will be. This is why I have never got bogged down in the whole contest thing. Its all about a couple peoples tastes. The public will be your judge.

The winners from the video photography category are listed here
http://www.nasites.net/projects/1296/newsfeatureweb.asp
And it's certainly well worth taking a look at the winner of the news feature section, from the Washington Post, here. It's quite something. I'll be featuring this in the next vlog - which i hope to do tomorrow (once I've got through a vast mountain of judging of my own, from the rather more linear PPA awards).