The Croydon Advertiser is a sight trying to merge paper news with other media platforms.
Quite obviously the sight does not have the money to provide journalists with flashy technology to create mini-films. Instead it provides what, I think, people want from a local sight - just enough information to know exactly what’s going on.
The sight has expanded the role of the photographer to create slide-shows with pictures and accompanying music. Lasting a couple of minutes the shows illustrate a local story such as final rehearsals of a school play.
Although the slide-shows are low budget and will never win awards they do what they set out to do by simply illustrating text.
They work because they are cheap, quick and put the audience in the story. But at the same time they are not the type of stories which would benefit from the effort which would go into making a visual piece for internet news.
With this in mind, will those news corporations thinking about creating local internet news, end up wasting their time and resources on stories which are best demonstrated by text and a still image?
If corporations sign up to internet news they are going to have to provide a regular service and meet deadlines. With this hanging over their heads they may make visual features simply for the sake of it and cause local news to become stilted.
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NEW YORK TIMES
I emailed the science editor of the NY Times - John Shwarz - and asked him about whether the paper was branching out into internet TV - this was his reply to that question:
"The Times puts its reporters on web video, but we don't have any dedicated broadcasters. I know that the company owned some tv stations, but sold them in recent years (times are tough in the newspaper biz!)"
- Maybe times are getting tough because there are so many new places for people to get thier news from instantaeusly and more creatively.
Papers are too slow, and even if they get themselves on the net, their reporters work at a different rate to broadcasters, and I guess setting up a seperate NY Times broadcasting network would cost an un-viable amount of money.
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