{"id":1017,"date":"2007-02-22T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/22\/papers-do-video-with-mixed-results\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T20:29:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T01:29:35","slug":"papers-do-video-with-mixed-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/22\/papers-do-video-with-mixed-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers do video, with mixed results"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the word “paper” becomes less and less a part of the newspaper world, things like video are becoming more and more common. While there are some exceptionally well-designed video efforts out there — such as the Washington Post’s OnBeing, which I wrote about recently<\/a> — there are also some that are, well… underwhelming, if that’s a word. <\/p>\n

\"video-camera.jpg\"Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism blog says that his hometown newspaper in Bolton is one of those that seems to be struggling<\/a> with the whole concept. In fact, Paul says its efforts are “the worst attempt at online video I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen so far.” And Kurt Anderson has a piece at New York magazine in which he writes about some of the video work<\/a> that the New York Times has been doing — including film critic David Carr’s Oscar blog Carpetbagger. He also mentions David Pogue’s tech videos, which I have to confess I find exceptionally irritating. But maybe that’s just me.<\/p>\n

“In the online archives of U.S. papers are thousands of videos, among them dozens of exceptional short docs, more like miniature Frontlines or public-radio-with-pictures than like network-news segments, available anytime. This is video-journalism-on-demand.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other recent newspaper video news, the New York Times just announced that it is going to dip its toes into the “user-generated content” field by allowing couples who want to be featured in the wedding announcements to send in video talking about how they met, or a clip from their wedding. Fittingly enough, an NYT staffer describes the effort in a Google video interview<\/a>, and says that the paper decided to do it as a way of experimenting with video.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

In a followup post, Paul says he came across some video at the Eastern Daily Press website that fits his definition<\/a> of really well-done video content.<\/p>\n

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As the word “paper” becomes less and less a part of the newspaper world, things like video are becoming more and more common. While there are some exceptionally well-designed video efforts out there — such as the Washington Post’s OnBeing, which I wrote about recently — there are also some that are, well… underwhelming, if … <\/p>\n

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