Tom Scotney

News and business reporter for the Birmingham Post

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Why I don’t like (most) video journalism

Posted by tomfromthepost on March 11, 2008

(and podcasts).

Nowadays it seems like every traditional news organisation is trying to get involved as quickly as possible with the new wave of multi-media production, which for many seems to mean video or audio broadcasting as well as text. Am I the only one that not only doesn’t care for the majority of multimedia journalism, but is actually turned off by it?

I’ve been following Stef Lewandowski’s coverage of the SXSW event with interest, and he’s obviously done some great work out there. But to be honest my heart sinks to open up Google Reader and be faced with a bank of audio interviews waiting to be played. Read the rest of this entry »

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