Toronto based paper The National Post (Canada's fourth largest daily) has announced that later this month it will cease delivering to homes in Atlantic Canada, and instead offer these remote subscribers with one year's free online edition subscription. Delivery of The National Post to Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on 31, March. This initiative has been launched because the cost of print edition delivery to these subscribers is no longer viable for the paper. inefficient."
The widespread availability of broadband internet has upped the ante adding much variety to what internet users can view, hear, in short consume, online. In such a climate, video is set to become one of the key new requirements for newspaper websites.
UK regional daily The Hull Daily Mail began offering video news reports on its website in November after six of its journalists completed a diploma in videojournalism, comprised of three weeks of intensive practical training, organised by The Press Association and taught by David Dunkley Gyimah, senior lecturer in Digital Journalism at The University of Westminster.
The Editors Weblog interviewed David Dunkley Gyimah and Paul Hartley, assistant editor at the Hull Daily Mail, asking them about the diploma in videojournalism and the implications of online video for newspaper websites. Both agree that online video will soon be found on most newspaper websites.
