The future of print journalism is … video! OK, so that’s not an
entirely new thought. But it is a trend that’s picking up steam.
In the U.K., the Press Association is undertaking a big project to help
convert many regional newspaper journalists into video-journalists,
reports David Dunkley Gyimah,
senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, who has been doing
some of the training for the program. He explains: “It’s the
newspapers’ answer to thwart the BBC’s plans to introduce what’s termed
ultralocal television.”
“The results for the first batch have been tremendous,” he says. He’s building a video-journalism website which among other things will showcase some of the video work being done by newspaper journalists.
