So as we are all pushing toward this new media wave in newspaper journalism, we have print stories that either run alone or have multimedia (video or audio) stories along with them - but as newspaper industry journalists, can we run just video?
Personally, I don't think we should. These videos are a fantastic supplement to stories in print, but the format and style of the news content in videos on newspaper Web sites doesn't lend itself as well to representing a story in a standalone fashion.
For instance, my favorite newspaper videos are ones that focus on one person, one story, one very visual event that is part of a bigger issue. The print story sets it up and the video drives it home. I think the combination makes fro a very poignant message in a lot of cases.
I think that if we were to start running stories only in their web video format, we would start having to make the content of our videos and the news style of them like that of broadcast journalism, and I think that would be doing the audience a disservice.
Broadcast journalism certainly has its place, but it is grounded in one place and it is a blending of hard news and very short burst clips of personal experiences. But in newspaper journalism, running print and video stories in the style that has developed for them does - at its best - highlight the best of both worlds.
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