Tuesday (evening) squibs

A whole lot more that may be of interest to those pursuing/paying attention to journalism.

• Question about video player, equipment, software. Angela Grant with a nice round-up of information for newspapers interested in plunging into the deep end of the video pool.
• Mastering Videography. Speaking of Angela, she’s pointed out yet another blog that I have to subscribe to.
• Newspaper Video: UK overview – Broadsheets. Andy Dickinson takes an in-depth look at video use by big British broadsheets. (Note: I may be learning the technical bits of video creation out of books, but folks such as Andy, Angela and a half-dozen others I regularly link to are my real teachers. Thank you all.)
• Premature betrayal. Alan Mutter with the best take yet on the Wall Street Journal editor who sat on the story that Murdoch was about to take a run at the newspaper.
• Hong Kong Stories. I’m reading and enjoying this website, featuring the work of Rebecca MacKinnon’s journalism students. Rebecca describes the project here.
• River Park Square Coverage Review. An independent review has smacked the Spokane Spokesman-Review around for the way it covered a controversial development that was a project of the family of the newspaper’s owner. What is incredibly interesting about this is that the review was commissioned by the newspaper and the results published in full. That’s transparency. Via Crosscut.
• Buzzed: Reporters with cameras, why we shouldn’t worry. Richard Hernandez tells newcomers to the double-duty, multimedia newsroom to suck it up and go out and kick some butt.