Romenesko

Sacramento Bee
The paper still has many questions about video letters, including: What are the content rules, other than no nudity and profanity? How long should a video run? Should the paper edit the videos? Does the person making the video have to be in it, or can he or she illustrate their point of view without being seen? "I think we'll make a set of rules at the outset and then immediately begin changing them once the thing is off the ground," says editorial pages editor David Holwerk. || More editor/ombud columns:
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