Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About newspaper-video

The full effect: Shooting, packaging and telling a multimedia story

I believe one of the goals multimedia storytelling should be to communicate in a web-native format, using stills, audio, video, graphics, and interactivity to draw readers into a story they wouldn’t have read if it were just printed text on a page — or a screen.
Would I have any interest in this train story in [...]

How quickly can newspaper video grow up?

We’re babes in the digital woods.
It’s our freshman year at film school, the first day of junior high TV Studio class, and our first hour off the plane in a country whose language we’ve only spoken in a classroom.
We’re making newspaper video.
Are we doing it right?
Would we be able to tell if we were?
Does it [...]

Will the real newspaper video model please stand up

What kind of video do you want in your online newspaper?
Broadcast-style stand-ups? Afternoon reports from the newsroom? Snarky into the camera videoblogs from your columnists? Straight news packages?
Mindy McAdams at Teaching Online Journalism has been talking about this all month, drilling down on things like the fancy new HD cameras that will [...]