[Keyword: online journalism, online video, video journalism]. As The Telegraph gear up for their multimedia future and The Times sign up ITN to join Fox and Reuters in providing video for ‘Times Online TV‘, Press Gazette reports that The Guardian will finally join the stampede and launch their own online video service. Always wanting to be different, however, Guardian Media Group chief executive Carolyn McCall “said that the Guardian’s online video offerings will consist of more than video content from PA or Reuters. Instead, original video from the group’s production company, Guardian Films, will be edited for use on the web.”

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[Keyword: online journalism, video]. 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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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.”

[Keyword: online journalism]. 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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[Keyword: online journalism]. Press Gazette reports on a speech from Telegraph online editorial director Edward Roussel that gives an insight into the new challenges facing editors who must manage content consumed by different audiences through different media:

“Roussel said there is only a 13 per cent overlap between the Telegraph’s print and online readership.

“”Groups like ours that are used to having a one-size-fits-all strategy where you know that the competitor is The Guardian or The Times, now need to think far more carefully about who are the audiences — plural — that they’re targeting, and then look at each of those audiences and determine who your competitors are on an audience-by-audience basis.

“He said that Telegraph section heads working in the central news “hub” at the paper’s new integrated newsroom in Victoria will have to think more carefully about the different demographics of the audiences of their various products.

“He said: “Certainly in the newspaper industry, over an extended period of time, people haven’t had to ask that question and are probably a bit fuzzy about who their audiences are.”

“Roussel gave the example of the sports hub, headed by Keith Perry, which will have to hold onto its loyal readership of the printed sports section while also appealing to users of interactive online features such as fantasy football, which he described as having a “more C1 [lower middle class]” demographic than the average 56-year-old Daily Telegraph reader.”

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[Keyword: online journalism, video journalism]. Journalism.co.uk reports that Washingtonpost.com has won the inaugural broadband video news Emmy for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina:

“The first-ever Emmy for outstanding individual achievement in content for non-traditional delivery platform was presented to Travis Fox, washingtonpost.com’s senior video journalist, for his films on the fallout of the disaster that hit Louisiana and Mississippi, in late August last year.

“The award was made at the National Television Academy‘s 27th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony held in New York last night.

“Fox told Journalism.co.uk the films avoided the traditional presenter driven format of TV news.

“They instead adopted a more subtle approach using the voice of the subjects to more effectively drive the individual stories.”

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[Keyword: online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging]. Press Gazette are posing the question on their discussion forums of who are the movers and shakers in the new online journalism landscape. A great idea – here are my suggestions:

• Number one has to be Simon Waldman, group director of digital strategy and development for Guardian Media Group (GMG), and the new chairman of the UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP).
• Colleagues Emily Bell and Georgina Henry at The Guardian both deserve a mention for their involvement in projects like Commentisfree.
• The Times’ Peter Bale, one of the longest serving online editors and an informed voice on the medium
• Guido Fawkes has done a great deal to raise the profile of bloggers in the UK with his breaking of parliamentary stories
• Rupert Murdoch deserves a mention in any power list, but his speech about the need for newspapers to grapple with the web was a watershed moment that changed the online strategies of many web-sceptics.
• Pete Clifton, Head of BBC News Interactive, a truly international player in setting the standard for online news forms.
• Kyle MacRae, head of Scoopt, one of the first agencies to capitalise on the demand for ‘citizen journalism’ content.
• Pete Picton, editor of Sun Online. The tabloid has made a number of online ‘firsts’ and represents a different approach to online publishing, taking on elements of online gaming, mobile revenues, and video.
• And Michael Hill’s appointment as Head of Multimedia at Trinity Mirror could be significant given his interest in citizen journalism.

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[Keyword: online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging]. Some food for thought from the INMA (International Newspaper Marketing Association) European Conference in Barcelona. As reported by Innovations in Newspapers, the last speaker, Earl Wilkinson, the Executive Director of the International Newspaper Maketing Association gave his view about tomorrow´s newspaper as follows:

“1. Core print product will become smaller to fit consumer lifestyles – fewer pages, smaller page size, shorter stories.

“2. Deep, rich journalism will move online and be enhanced in virtual universe.

“3. Core product will be customized, interactive, and on-demand.

4. Miniature versions of the core product will target under-served groups.

“5. Digital options will multiply – get the newspaper anywhere, anytime, anyway.

“6. Newspaper features will be unbundled … iTunes pay-per-click model.

“7. You will buy a multi-media “membership” in the newspaper, not a print subscription.

“8. “Citizen journalism” will become another source for newspapers like Reuters, AP.

“9. Less “voice of God” (monologue), more “mirror of the community” (dialogue).”

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[Keyword: online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging]. I’ve been writing a column about the media for the past five weeks on new website TheStirrer.com. I have been trying to persuade them to not centre-align text, but they seem attached to it. You may want to read it (and email them asking them to change the alignment!)…

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[Keyword: online journalism, computer assisted reporting]. Here’s a great piece at Poynter which outlines how one blogger used online resources to investigate the truth behind the LonelyGirl15 controversy (a YouTube video that purported to be an online diary but which actually turned out to be a hoax). Here’s the details:

“On Sept. 8 [Mark Glaser] announced a contest to determine the truth behind these videos.

“By Sept. 12, he had a winner: Matt Foremski.

“How did he crack this case? Matt Foremski describes his sleuthing in detail — and
there are some tricks here that any investigative reporter should know how to use:

“I came across a comment that linked to a private MySpace page that was allegedly that of the actress who plays Lonelygirl15. As the profile was set to ‘private,’ there was no real info one could glean from the page. However, when I queried Google for that particular MySpace user name, ‘jeessss426,’ I found a Google cache from the page a few months ago when it was still public.”

“Here’s that cached MySpace page. (Reporting tip: Know how to pull up a Google cached page. And for that matter, know how to use the Internet Archive.)

“From there, Matt Foremski used Google searches intelligently to query on various angles related to Jessica Rose, the New Zealand-born actress who turned out to be playing LonelyGirl15. And others involved in the project turned up more photos and other information.

“This is a pretty good example of a distributed investigation — something I think any journalist can occasionally instigate, join, or build upon. This can be a fruitful exercise, if properly focused.

“More details at Silicon Valley Watcher. MSM coverage at the Los Angeles Times. “

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