Tag Archives: Video

Express & Star using Qik for football reports

The Express & Star is using Qik, allows reporters to live stream video footage from a mobile handset on the paper’s website, to produce post-match video reports from football games

The resulting videos offer a short, sharp analysis of the games, and their immediacy – they’re clearly filmed just after the final whistle – will surely appeal to football fans.

Reports this weekend came from Wolverhampton Wanderers’ victory over Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion’s opening Premiership game.

MediaGuardian: BBC local video plans ‘very damaging’ says, Newspaper Society

The organisation representing the regional newspaper industry has hit out against the BBC’s plans to increase local video online. The Newspaper Society said the proposals, which would see up to £23 million spent across 60 local BBC websites, “will compete direct with our members’ operations in a harmful fashion”.

Video: When MoveOn.org and ColorOfChange.org petitioned Fox News

Fronted by hip-hop star Nas, MoveOn.org and ColourOfChange.org delivered its petition to Fox News over alleged ‘racist smears’ made by the news channel against presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The 620,127 letters to were boxed up as Fox refused to accept them.

Brand Republic: Bauer appoints Marco Nadotti to lead video drive

The magazine publisher has appointed Nadotti to the newly-created role of head of video acquisition and syndication.

Nadotti, who previously worked for video search engine Blinkx, will take up his new role on August 1.

First video ‘splash’ for Telegraph.co.uk

An update to Twitter from Telegraph.co.uk communities editor Shane Richmond suggests the paper is breaking more new ground with its videojournalism.

News of the sentencing of John Darwin, who faked his own disappearance in 2002, and his wife Anne was broken on the site using the video below:

Norwegian newspaper reporters banned from filming rock festival

“These newspaper reporters should stick to what they are good at, namely creating a newspaper, be it online or in print,” the head of press for Norwegian rock festival Rootsfestivalen, told paper Brönnöysunds Avis (BA).

The local paper was the first Norwegian mainstream newspaper ever to go online back in 1996, but PR man Dagfinn Torgersen, a former professional film photographer with the country’s public broadcaster, does not think the early online adopter has made much headway with web-TV.

“We have allowed TV stations to film, but we see no purpose in news reporters filming these concerts only to put the material on BA’s website with extremely bad sound and picture quality,” he told the paper.