Monthly Archives: October 2006

Video press releases

[Keyword: , ]. Here’s a fascinating resource for journalists: you may already subscribe to the likes of PR Newswire for regular press releases – but how about a video service? The NewsMarket provides streaming video and other media assets on a range of stories under different categories. Or, in their own words, they provide a:

“video archive and distribution service that enables journalists from around the world to find, preview and download free broadcast-standard video and other multimedia content over the Internet.”

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The future of editorial photography? Video

There are some interesting quotes from Stuart Nicol, the newly appointed London’s Daily Telegraph Executive Editor (Pictures) in Innovations in Newspapers about the future of the editorial photographer’s trade:

“He tells EPUK that the future of the Telegraph’s photojournalism lies in shooting video.
“Digital stills photography will, when we look back on it, form a very small period of time in the history of photojournalism.”
“Telegraph photographers will undoubtably be shooting solely on video in the future, and certainly within a year we hope to be well advanced down that route.”

Online: where the money is

[Keyword: ]. It seems that Emap is expecting revenues from digital products to continue to rise, according to Journalism.co.uk – due at least in part to significant investment in the medium.

“Digital revenue was expected to be £59 million, up 55%, driven mostly by B2B acquisitions.

“Tom Moloney, group chief executive, said: “Digital revenue has grown by 55 per cent, led by B2B, and is on target to more than double over the next three years, as we continue to migrate resources onto faster growth platforms and reshape the group for growth.”

“Emap spent £15 million on new product development in the period, £5 million more than last year, focusing primarily on digital initiatives.

“underlying revenue from its international consumer magazines business is expected to be down 18 per cent”

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