Longer forms are possible on the web

Executive Producer of CNN.com says there's an opportunity to present longer form video on the web. The catch? It's all about your audience. People going to CNN.com are presumably going to be willing to watch longer videos to become more informed.

Once again, YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.



Found via AndyDickinson.net

Are you a Churnalist?

This is out of the UK, but I found it from them following my Twitter feed.

From their "Why?" page:

Journalists are becoming churnalists. Denied the time, money and resources to do the job properly, many hacks now churn out stories without checking facts or sources.

But it’s not their fault, and the best worst best churnalism is worth celebrating.

SPJ Conference at CSU

I was asked by Metro State Journalism Chair Deb Hurley to speak to the Society of Professional Journalists Region 9 conference about online video and multimedia over the weekend. Here's a presentation I constructed through Google Docs after seeing a great example by News Videographer's Angela Grant.

It's very interesting finding the future possibilities of collaborating with others via the web on presentations or other projects with something like Google Docs. I know for a fact it is only going to accelerate rapidly in the near future.

How bad is it, really?

Are newspapers struggling or is the entire corporate environment in the US gaging and choking?

"Surprisingly the industry is just 10 percent off its historic highs (much like the stock market)," he writes, "and is still twice as big as it was 20 years ago." – Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired

Here's another link about the polarized views of the industry.