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Plus: A Fox News interview goes viral, layoffs in Cleveland, new hires for Al Jazeera, and the rest of the week’s news on journalism and the web.
The Times’ Op-Docs video program is finding an audience online and in theaters and is looking for new filmmakers.
Plus: New developments in online video, The New Yorker’s Strongbox leak submission system, and the rest of the week’s future-of-news news.
MIT’s Comparative Media Studies graduate theses critique how hacking is portrayed in the media, whether new media demands new criticism, and how a YouTube policy influenced the writing of comedy and drama.
The Times wants to make video freely available on their own properties and elsewhere on the web. They also plan to increase video production.
“Sometimes the technology leads, and sometimes, the journalism has to lead.”
“We’ve sort of developed this rhythm: we come up with an idea, we do a prototype of it really quickly, and we decide do we move it forward or try it for something else.” Justin Ellis
A bad night for the Academy gave the Times a chance to work on its second-screen offerings, led by A.O. Scott and David Carr.
Companies like Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and SB Nation took part in YouTube’s original programming project. But their viewership can’t always hit the high levels of more entertainment-centric options.
The PBS documentary series is trying to orient itself for a future beyond TV that includes the web, tablets, and more.