There’s a school of thought that says video is the future of information, that rich media is the endpoint of the evolution of text. I don’t know that I buy that, since text still has so many advantages over video: its scannability, its searchability, how much easier it usually is to create and polish. But [...]

When people talk about the long tail, they often focus on consumer goods, where the infinite shelf space at a company like Amazon or Netflix allows a huge variety of products to be sold. But the same concept can apply to news, where cheap servers make it possible for hyper-targeted coverage — the stuff that [...]

[Here's part two of Ted Delaney's interview with NBC News digital journalist Mara Schiavocampo. Part one ran yesterday. —Ed.]
Mara Schiavocampo’s workflow has evolved as her job has.
It was only little more than a year ago that NBC named Schiavocampo its first “digital journalist” — a job whose mandate covers reporting, writing, photography, video (both shooting [...]

On the third floor of a nondescript building along Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, a gaggle of twenty-somethings sits with headphones plugged into flatscreen televisions, dutifully following the words of Joe Scarborough, Steve Doocy, Wolf Blitzer, and the other talking heads of 24-hour television news. It’s the nerve center of Talking Points Memo’s video operation, TPMtv, [...]

I post this video from Richard Koci Hernandez for two reasons:

— It’s a remarkable piece of work, which Richard says was assembled in 48 hours. Richard’s a lot more talented than most, but it’s a sign of what can be done with off-the-shelf tools (Adobe After Effects and Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Motion) these [...]