Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
As journalism organizations try to figure out how to make money in a Web-driven, free content world, MediaPost’s summary of new research from Nielsen offers some important information.
The topline summary suggests that pay-for-view news is going to be a tough sell as 79% of users say they would no longer access a Web site that charges them.
However, the [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
In case you haven’t seen them, here’s a link to the Radio Television Digital News Association ethical guidelines for the use of social media in gathering and disseminating news. The Poynter’s Al Tompkins was one of the architects.
We wanted to speak to how speed and space limitations can compromise accuracy and fairness. We wanted to speak [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Nikki Burdine is the anchor and producer for the noon and 5 p.m. show at WHAG-NBC25 in Hagerstown, Maryland. She also blogs for RTDNA where she recently posted a description of her experiment with LiveStream during a newscast.
It was very simple, I set up an account, had someone hold their iPhone up during the show, [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Critics of TV news often cite sensationalism, lack of substance and a preponderance of crime stories as characteristics of many nightly newscasts. Veteran news director Forrest Carr says, in some cases, the critics are right.
“Local TV news in general is infamous for a condition similar to attention deficit disorder, characterized by stories that are reactive in [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Patrick Farrell is enthusiastic about what the future may hold for video storytelling. As a video journalist for the New York Times, Farrell is certainly working for one of the most robust online sites in the world.
“Especially if you’re working in journalistic video right now, the doors are kind of open,” Farrell said. “It’s unlike the [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
This post is not an anti-Twitter rant, instead it’s a cautionary tale. By now, we’ve all heard stories about newsrooms sending out inaccurate tweets and then paying the price for it. Take the case of WFTV in Orlando, for example, where back in April the station tweeted about the state’s first swine flu case with [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
According to the latest Nielsen research, Facebook is now the third most popular place to watch video online in the world! Of course, YouTube is still dominant, but Facebook’s rapid growth is worth noting.
According to Nielsen’s latest VideoCensus numbers, which look at the number of video views in October, YouTube serviced over 6.6 billion streams. In a [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
“A video should be as long as it needs to be absolutely compelling.”
Andrew Fitzgerald oversees the online news efforts for Current TV. His view on video for the Web was echoed by the AP’s Kevin Roach and YouTube’s Olivia Ma. All three took part in RTDNA’s “Video-Free-For-All” webinar.
One of the fundamentals expressed is that the [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
USA Today puts together some amazing online interactives with a surprisingly small staff. Just five people are typically involved in putting together major projects, says Chet Czarniak, managing editor of USAToday.com–a designer, programmer, producer, IT person and database editor.
The results are often impressive, like this searchable database of US war casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
By Stephen Goforth, University of Mississippi (former CNN writer/producer)
The Online News Association convention in San Francisco included a session titled, “Design Solutions from News Experts.” While panelists from the New York Times revealed a glimpse into new features coming to the newspaper’s Web site, Adaptive Path president Jesse James Garrett offered practical advice from his [...]
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