Sep
30
Wrapping up the weekend:
- The rising value of the online user. Steve Yelvington has some doubts about figures that show the value of individual newspaper website visitors, and says the value is really in the local.
- Don’t blame the Internet, or the owners. And, earlier this week, also from Steve, a list of reasons that make more sense than blaming the ‘net or ownership for the current state of newspapers.
- Tip 109 video journalism. We learn writing from writers, photography from photographers so why not video from the directors who do it best? This makes sense: since I’ve started working with video, my movie and TV watching has become much more analytical.
- Improving web video – Three S’s Part 2: Script. Part one was sequences. Now, Andy Dickinson has some wise words about scripting, with lots of examples. Recommended reading.
- What is the life of newsprint? Andrew Grant-Adamson gets a reality check on the value of newspapers to young folk, But, apparently, about well over half of them say their parents are still reading.
- Accounts from inside Burma. This is astonishingly good: reports from inside Burma that have been forwarded to the BBC.
- Hiller: Journalists of the future are already here. Hiller is David Hiller, publisher of the LA Time, which is throwing major resources into online. I’m not sure I agree with what seems to be reliance on video as the major saviour for newspapers, but I do like this quote about newspapering in 2007: “If you don’t like whitewater canoeing, you may be in the wrong business.”
