Thursday, December 8, 2005

The future of print journalism is ... video! OK, so that's not an entirely new thought. But it is a trend that's picking up steam.

In the U.K., the Press Association is undertaking a big project to help convert many regional newspaper journalists into video-journalists, reports David Dunkley Gyimah, senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, who has been doing some of the training for the program. He explains: "It's the newspapers' answer to thwart the BBC's plans to introduce what's termed ultralocal television."

"The results for the first batch have been tremendous," he says. He's building a video-journalism website which among other things will showcase some of the video work being done by newspaper journalists.
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