Fragmentation: News Stations Hiring “Video Journalists” to Compete
Published by Clark Saturn on 15 Nov 2005 at 5:56 am.
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Filed under Vlog News.
The pieces of big media pie are getting smaller. A story posted on Lost Remote today contains further evidence of the fragmentation of mainstream media and news sources. The story links to two articles, one in TV Week and one in the Times Union, an Albany, New York newspaper. The TV Week article mentions a couple Young Broadcasting news stations that have begun hiring “video journalists” and bloggers, and have outfitted their crews with smaller portable cameras to gather news footage. They are feeling the need to compete with new technologies that allow people to bypass TV news in favor of downloading video off the net and viewing it on portable players. The stations don’t seem to put the video and the blogging together into one tasty treat, but are focused on blogging text and broadcasting the video, but videoblogging could be right around the corner for them. The Times Union article gives direct evidence that the media pie is being carved into smaller pieces, as some news stations around the country have already shut down.
Bre Pettis on 15 Nov 2005 at 4:16 pm: 1
Great find and really interesting article over on lost remote.
Tim on 15 Nov 2005 at 6:56 pm: 2
ait…what…I’m in Albany. That’s my newspaper…wha….!!!
Bre Pettis on 17 Nov 2005 at 10:15 pm: 3
Alright Tim, go out there and sell some footage to them!!!
Clark Saturn on 18 Nov 2005 at 5:23 am: 4
Yeah, Tim! More work for you!