There’s an issue prominent in newspaper websites that is being explored by careful experimentation or rigid policymaking: should video journalism achieve a balance or strive for the polemic? The co-founder of The Huffington Post, Ariana Huffington, maintains that balance is not necessary in a story, only “the truth” should be. In these video interviews here [...]
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BLOG: VIDEO JOURNALISM – BALANCE OR POLEMIC?
October 24th, 2008 1 Comment
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BLOG: IS IT A FAILURE TO PLAY IT SAFE WHEN SHOOTING?
June 24th, 2008 No Comments
Jeff Jarvis is professor of journalism at City University, New York. He writes for Media Guardian and he’s been speaking at the Future of Journalism conference in Sydney. I don’t know Jeff, but he’s been raising many points about online journalism. He is quoted as saying: “I’m going to start with an existential question. It’s [...]
BLOG: SUBTITLES – IS A PAUSE TOO LONG?
March 26th, 2008 No Comments
You’re in a remote Russia village. Your camera fingers are starting to freeze. Your interpretator has an American accent, but he’s Russian. The English reporter asking the questions and scribbling away for his text-based article, but there’s not much time to spare. The interview fixer, who sweet-talks village subjects, is now also acting as an [...]
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BLOG: INTRODUCTION (aka STARTER FOR TEN)
March 18th, 2008 No Comments
Thanks for tuning in. Here I plan to write about aspects of documentary-making, whether that is online journalistic-led doc-video along the lines of The Guardian’s documentary video and The Washington Post’s documentary video, or more ‘traditional’ documentary-making, for cinematic or TV screenings. It might also touch on fiction film, what may be learned from it, [...]