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A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, called "The Changing Newsroom: What is Being Gained and What is Being Lost in America's Daily Newspapers", has found that smaller newsrooms are hurting newspaper quality. The recent brutal cuts in newsrooms across America are taking their toll, the Associated Press report.

"America's newspapers are narrowing their reach and their ambitions and becoming niche reads," the study said.

Newspaper paper stories are generally shorter and the coverage tends to focus on local events. The study also showed that papers carry less foreign, national and business, science and arts news, and many have reduced the crossword puzzle and eliminated television and stock listings. Reporters are also having to cover more than one beat, as Editors struggle with less staff.

Despite this, 56 percent of the editors surveyed said their news product is better than it was three years ago because coverage is more targeted. Only 5 percent of the editors surveyed said they were confident they could predict what the newsroom would look like in five years.

The PEJ study surveyed senior newsroom executives at more than 250 newspapers and interviewed editors at papers in 15 cities. The results of the survey, conducted online by Princeton Survey Research Associates International between Jan. 29 and Feb. 29, include responses from over 50 percent of U.S. papers with 100,000 or more in circulation and more than 30 percent of papers with 50,000 to 100,000 in circulation.

Source: Associated Press

The International Herald Tribune (IHT) announced today that starting from June 20 it will be printing its 4-page world business section inside India's Financial Chronicle (FC).

In a news release, IHT said that this would provide FC readers with "daily news and analysis on what is happening in companies and deals and in the financial markets around the world, alongside the latest business news in India."

Deccan Chronicle Holdings (DCH) has published FC in Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore since April 16. The IHT release date was chosen to be on the same date as the first FC release from Mumbai.

According to Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, IHT publisher, the development is "exciting" because India 's market has "tremendous potential". By teaming up with DCH, "a dynamic partner with a proven track record", the "appetite for high quality content" will be met.

DCH will be advertising the FC/IHT partnership in Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad through "billboard, television and print" while the IHT will be selling international ads.

Other examples of the West teaming up with the East include the daily paper Mint, a partnership between the Wall Street Journal and Hindustan Times. The Financial Times is also investing in India's business media market by planning for an Indian version of its daily.

Source: iht.com

The Digital Journalist gives guidelines for producing newspaper 
videos, something that five years ago they predicted as the key to 
helping newspapers "to migrate their brand on the web."

Videos geared towards websites are different from TV stories. For web-oriented videos, quality is significant. 

The guidelines include:
- Remember that newspaper videos are different from television.
- Making videos is complicated and requires time for quality material.
- TV stories must not be re-used for the newspaper videos since they 
tend to be shorter: 45 seconds on average.
- Newspaper videos may be long as long as they are "compelling."
- Newspaper photographers can shoot stills and videos, but it will take 
longer.
- Videos for the Web are generally shot and edited by the same person, 
whereas TV stories include specialized tasks, where a cameraperson "hands off the raw tape to a producer who takes it to an editor to  complete."
- The Digital Journalist says that "newspaper video should carry the 
imprint of the parent" and that "it should represent the editorial 
image of the newspaper." "Shoddy, amateurish" videos on the website 
will reflect the audience's view on the paper.
- If you do not make a video every day, it is not that worrisome. Quality is more important.
- Since the concept of newspaper videos is relatively new, the brand 
may take its time to establish itself.
- "If you are running a piece on the Web site that is not worthy of 
submitting to regional and national competitions, it probably should 
not be there," The Digital Journalist says.
- Online videos must contain "good storytelling" and have "excellent 
production values."
- Do not pay too much attention to the statistics or the hits.
- According to The Digital Journalist, "newspapers biggest asset is 
Goodwill" and "video is now a new part of the goodwill equation."

Newspaper photojournalists and video producers need "to be patient-do 
good storytelling and edit well."

Source: www.digitaljournalist.org

BBC's first phase of integrating their news operation across media was completed on Monday with a common newsrooms in which journalists from the corporation's television news service started to work with their colleagues from radio and television news bulletins.

This move is due to a  "smaller than expected lisence fee settlement," according to Press Gazette journalist Martin Stabe, which made BBC want to "reduce duplication of its newsgathering operations."

"The number of roles has been reduced significantly because we've had to make these big savings," said BBC head of newsroom Peter Horrocks. "We've introduced some multimedia roles, but as people develop multimedia skills and once we've got all the platforms sitting alongside each other they can work together most effectively."

There is a a centralized "Media Wire" desk, which monitors audio and video feeds, then transfers stories to the most appropriate outlets, and there is also a centralized planning desk that controls assignments. There will also be a senior editor who will be the "multimedia editor," who will coordinate the different media and mediate conflicts. Each desk will also have a "web conversion producer," who will be responsible for extending stories that were originally produced for online platforms.

The next steps include integrating journalists from the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, and those responsible for the text-based sections of the BBC News website.

In June, BBC Online journalists will join the converged newsroom, then the online news operation will split into two sections: one will cover world news and move to the second floor of the newsroom with the BBC World News television team, and the other will be the UK operation on the first floor, producing domestic radio and television bulletins.

Most journalists will "continue to work primarily in the media that they have traditionally worked," says Horrocks, "though over time, producers will increasingly work across television, radio and online as staff are put through a training program."

Source: Press Gazette through IFRA Executive News Service

In a step to improve its Internet search service, this week Microsoft launched a redesigned Live Search, their news search service bringing together stories, photos and video from around the world.

According to a senior product manager Justin Osmer,  searches will initially be limited to "reputable news sources," which includes newspapers, magazines, broadcast and cable shows, and websites, but may eventually include blogs. Live Search will have improved searches for popular topics and content areas, such as shopping and entertainment.

"News is another one of those areas where there's a lot of searches," said Osmer. "And we've had a news category or a news vertical for a while, but to be honest, hadn't put a lot of effort to it."

Based on a user's IP address, the service will also feature a strip of results of local news from the local papers and television stations and a traffic-tracking feature for Live Maps.

Microsoft aims to release major updates to Live Search twice a year, in spring and fall.

Source: Seattle Times

The Editors Weblog is running a series of exclusive interviews about the future of journalism with top editors at leading newspapers around the world. Here is the latest installment with  Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief of Gulf News, based in Dubai.

The list of upcoming interviews will be updated as they are published (click here to view all interviews in this series). Among the other titles that have been asked to participate in these interviews are:

- The New York Times - Jonathan Landman (US)
- Financial Times (UK)
- Guardian (UK)
- Washington Post - Jim Brady (US)
- Globe & Mail - Ed Greenspon (Canada)
- The Times (UK)
- The Economist (UK)
- Gazeta Wyborcza - Jaroslaw Kurski (Poland)
- Le Monde (France)
- Die Welt (Germany)
- The Hindustan Times - Pankaj Paul (India)
- Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
- JoongAng Ilbo (South Korea)
- The Age / Fairfax - Mike van Niekerk (Australia)
- The Nation - Pana Janviroj (Thailand)
- Punch (Nigeria)
- El Tiempo (Colombia)
- Clarin (Argentina)
- Gulf News - Abdul Hamid Ahmad (UAE)

Questions: "News, journalism, newspapers: same past, different futures?"

How long do you think you will define your company as a newspaper company or a print company?

Gulf News cannot be pigeonholed as either a newspaper company or a print company. It is a content provider. This means that it supplies news to print, online, radio or any other required medium. The organization will survive and sustain in this role that is its core functionality. We do have commercial printing facilities but our focus will always be news, irrespective of where it is published.

At this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, a panel of futurists claimed that print newspapers wouldn't exist by 2014. To what extent do you agree with this?

I strongly disagree with this point of view. Firstly, more than two thirds of the world doesn't have internet access; it perhaps has some limited access to television, which leaves print or newspaper as the main medium for receiving news. While circulation may be plateauing and in some cases declining in the West, it continues to increase in Asia and Africa for the aforesaid reasons. If internet has to make an impact, there would need to be development in infrastructure, increased investment, better education and other facilities in place. So the decline in Europe and America is compensated by growth in Asia and Africa for newspapers. The year 2014 is very close; I definitely do not see newspapers losing its significance by then.

In journalism's multi-centennial history, do you view the emergence of digital journalism as part of the continuity, or as a complete breakaway with previous forms of journalism?

Digital journalism is part of the continued journey of journalism. When television arrived, people heralded the doom of radio. Today, radio is doing very well and moving from strength to strength. One form of media helps another. Technology has helped journalism evolve and we need to adapt to the changes.

Do you believe in the increasingly active role of the user in the news process, and is it a threat or an opportunity for professional journalists?

Readers or users are the support system of the journalistic process. There wouldn't be any value to our work without them. Nobody can function in isolation. The increasingly active role of the reader/user in the news process is an opportunity not a threat for professional journalists. We should use the chance to educate readers so that the quality of interaction could be more professional. Ultimately there will always be amateurs and professionals in the world; people need to choose who they deal with.

Do you consider the Golden Age of investigative journalism is already past, or just beginning?

The Golden Age of investigative journalism is just beginning. As our world shrinks with increased connectivity and people's access to information increases, they are no longer satisfied with the superficial. They want more... they want to know in depth. They want to know what lies beneath the surface.

Can journalism survive newspapers?

Journalism is not dependent on newspapers for its survival. It existed from the time man learnt to communicate through images, words and sounds. Its root or seed lies in speech. When a tribesman climbed atop a rocky outcrop to call out to his people - that was journalism, he was giving them information. Among ancient Arab civilizations, poets functioned as journalists. They conveyed political messages, news, propaganda and other information through poetry. So journalism has existed for a while. Today it has found a home in print, online, television and radio. In the future it will find other means, but survive it will. Journalism will exist as long as man can talk.


Stay tuned for the next week's interviews, which will include The New York Times and the Financial Times.

In April 2007, French regional newspaper Le Télégramme launched an original online offer: a miniature, daily, television-type news report.

At the time, the experiment was hailed as most innovative in the French regional paper landscape. Has that particular format borne its fruits though?

Télégramme and JT Web

The paper built a studio within its newsroom at a relatively low cost, about €70,000 including two professional cameras, an editing console and lighting. The paper hired a professional broadcast journalist to produce daily video footage with professional standards (about one original report daily, sometimes two). The actual news show, dubbed 'JT Web', lasts about five minutes. It is staffed by four of the paper's journalists, who come from diverse backgrounds and desks, on a rotating basis. It is published every weekday at 5pm.

Each journalist compiles video content shot by the videojournalist, gets a share of his or her own footage or carries out short interviews with the paper's journalists, and serves as an anchor for the news report. Each underwent a 4-week training program. They attend the morning news meeting and pick out the stories that will have most visual relevance.

The JT Web has helped to expand Le Télégramme's multimedia coverage. However, the televised format of the JT Web has borne disappointing results traffic-wise. Of the roughly 40,000-50,000 daily unique visitors to the website, there are only between 1,000-3,500 video downloads, depending on the news event.

In these baby steps of online video though, editors shouldn't be excessively concerned by eyeballs, as the JT Web served more important purposes, helping to modernize the newsroom's culture.

Video fueled newsroom convergence

The 'JT Web' was launched with two main purposes. One was to "surf on the growing enthusiasm for video news coverage" that was emerging on all the major international news sites, said Olivier Clech, Digital editor at Le Télégramme. Secondly - and as importantly in Clech's view - the JT Web was a good way to engage in cultural change within the newsroom (which isn't integrated but Clech would like it to be), by creating curiosity amongst journalists.

"Video was a lever to trigger evolution," he said. It was both used to fulfill the audience's needs and made journalists " realize that multimedia was inevitable." This doesn't mean that all of the paper's 200 journalists will regularly produce multimedia coverage, but the JT Web was a good way to make them more Web-friendly.

For the last municipal elections in March 2008, the Télégramme organized diverse video coverage to complement its print and online stories. Video interviews were shot with editors of the paper's local editions ("100% print people") to discuss the details of the elections. On election day, the Télégramme gathered spontaneous reactions from voters and politicians, and provided video analysis from its main offices.



Newspaper video: towards on-demand, news YouTubes

According to Clech, the JT Web's televised news format was a good way for the paper to tackle video, since it required a rigorous and structured approach. But it doesn't fall in line with the expectations of the online audience, "which is a more of a consumer of short video sequences." Most Web users seek short and diversified on-demand clips. The JT Web may have also suffered from insufficient visibility on the homepage, lack of broadband penetration and a relatively slow server.

In the future, the JT Web could be scrapped, or perhaps the Télégramme will save this format for talk shows, profiles or select news items. The TV news report format simply doesn't bring enough people. And there seems to be a disconnect between waiting on videos of 'hot' breaking news until the 5pm news report, instead of publishing them immediately.

Clech couldn't give too many details, but the paper is working on its next set of video offerings, which could include a larger selection of on-demand video clips, which users could freely browse. Content would be more systematically indexed to make it easy for readers to find and share. Sounds familiar? Perhaps there could even be some participatory features...

Last but not least, Clech reminded: "Let's not focus on the platform, and instead keep doing our jobs." That's the secret.


Stay tuned for Part 2, with an interview with Ian Vaile, Director of Digital Productions at Fairfax Media in Australia.

Source: Olivier Clech, Digital Editor-in-Chief at Le Télégramme

As the Figaro readies the launch of its own in-house video studio (still fully under construction when visited), Bertrand Gié, head of new media for the paper, agreed to give us a few words about the role of video within the quality daily.

The media group India Today, which recently created its digital division India Today Group Digital, is planning on the launch of a web portal to span across media, as well as mobile magazines in early 2008.

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has announced it will beat its online revenue targets and that it plans to increase the amount of money made from online activities.

On Nov. 24, OhmyNews, reportedly the world’s largest citizen journalism website, inaugurated a new school – funded by and designed for citizen journalism. Not only did the school benefit from $400,000 in funding, its programs seem far from amateurish.

A few weeks ago, El Pais underwent a redesign to emphasize its renewed global reach and connect with a younger readership. In this email Q&A, editor-in-chief Javier Moreno explains everything about the paper's relaunch.

Imtiaz Alam, Secretary General of the South Asian Free Media Association and World Editors Forum Board member, was released after a 36-hour detention. The World Association of Newspapers and World Editors Forum have sent a letter to President Musharraf to protest against the recent media crackdown.

Paul Moreira is an investigative reporter who has worked extensively in the print press and was one of the founders of the defunct French, investigative, television show “90 minutes.” In his latest book, Les nouvelles censures, Moreira describes the widespread practices of overt and covert manipulations of the news media. “One of this era’s most powerful myths is that we live in the information age. In fact, we live in a media age, in which information is repetitive, “safe” and limited by invisible borders,” writes John Pilger, Hidden Agendas. Are these theories ‘Big Brother’ paranoia, or are information flows much more controlled than the public would like to think? Is this only the case for television’s spectacular requirements, or also for trusted newspapers? Moreira investigates, and answers.