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All reporters at the Journal-Register Co. (JRC) will get video cameras, under an ambitious plan to bring the newspaper into the digital age, the company's 3,100 employees have been told. The company's new CEO John Paton has also told staff that they now work for a 'media company', not a 'newspaper company'. Appropriately enough, he announced the news in a seven-minute slideshow, emailed companywide, the New Haven Independent reports.

"We're not looking to make any cuts," Paton told the Independent. "We need to improve [local coverage]. We don't need to make it worse." The company, which runs 19 daily and 150 other newspapers, including the flagship New Haven Register, filed for bankruptcy last February.

The Kuwait Journalists Association on Monday criticized a series of proposed amendments which would impose stricter punishment of press offences. The group of journalists along with prominent newspaper and television editors called on parliament to reject the new measures, even agreeing to boycott the lawmakers responsible for them.

"We urged MPs to reject the government plan to amend the press law," an official statement released by the KJA said.

YouTube is releasing a new open-source interface called YouTube Direct that aims to make it easier for news organisations to have access to relevant clips from citizen journalists, it was widely reported. The application, to be unveiled today, will allow media outlets to integrate a video upload tool into their sites, where they can accept and screen user footage, described TechCrunch. All content uploaded will also appear on the YouTube site.

As more and more of the public are equipped to record video on cameras or mobile phones, and it becomes easier to upload, citizen contributions are being welcomed at more and more news outlets, particularly as financial difficulties are cau. So many videos are uploaded to YouTube each minute, however, that it is hard to find news-worthy content and very difficult to ascertain its reliability.

Newsy.com, an online video news service started in the spring in partnership with the Missouri School of Journalism, announced that its iPhone application is currently ranked number six on the list of free news apps in the iTunes app store, ahead of those of many traditional news organisations.

"We're thrilled about Newsy's ascension up the list of free news apps - it's affirmation that Newsy.com is ahead of the trends for news and news delivery," said Newsy.com President Jim Spencer in a press release. The iPhone app has only been available from September 30.  It is updated instantaneously with the website, and users can post comments or share videos via Twitter or Facebook. 

The BBC's announcement that it is to share video news with UK newspapers has been met with opposition by several media organisations. News International, the UK arm of News Corp, the Press Association and ITN have all expressed concern at the deal announced yesterday with the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Independent and the Telegraph.

News International, which owns the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, said it had rejected the BBC's proposal to provide free online video content because of the "onerous marketing conditions" that promote the corporation, according to the Guardian. A spokeswoman said that the content would in effect not be provided at no cost because it would provide marketing for the BBC. The content would appear in a BBC-branded video player and links would lead back to the BBC's website. 

The BBC is to share video news with major British newspapers, in what the Guardian described as a "landmark deal." The first papers involved are the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Independent and the Telegraph, but the publicly funded corporation plans to make the video news content available to other UK-based news websites also.

The BBC will provide a limited range of video news content in four public service areas: UK politics, business, health and science and technology. The material will be given to the papers at no cost and is intended to supplement their own work. According to the Guardian, the BBC has been clear that it has "no intention" of extending the range of content to genres such as entertainment and sports news. 

Armed with the goal of "demystifying newspapers," the Victoria Advocate, a small Texas newspaper, began webcasting its daily editorial meeting last year, according to an Associated Press article hosted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The paper uses a free technology called Livestream to open up its decision-making process to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection.

This idea is not altogether new. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., was apparently the first to offer live web videos of its news meetings starting in mid-2006. However, the paper discontinued the practice earlier this year due to lack of interest; just a handful of people were tuning in to watch reporters hash it out with editors each day.

Yesterday CBS News revealed its new site, which aims to ease navigation and put more focus on video content. The CBSNews.com landing page now features a mix of the latest news articles, pictures and video, with prominent placement for CBS exclusive content from the site's blogs.

"The new design and platform looks to capitalize on the legacy and strengths of the CBS News' brands, while leveraging the web's ability to help us dramatically expand our coverage, showcase our strength in video, and drive greater engagement with our audience," said Joe Gillespie, executive vice president of CBS Interactive Technology & News.

Beamups, the digital marketplace for news footage goes live today with a UK version of the site.

The invention of two former cameramen, Boaz Eshtai and Yosi Romano, Beamups offers a platform for producers to distribute and sell their previously unused and archived material to would-be buyers.

The website first launched in the Middle East in April and, since then, has already helped to secure deals with the BBC, Al Jazeera, ABC and Rtvi.

The Press Association is in talks with some of the UK's regional newspaper groups with regards to taking over from ITV as the main supplier of video content, the Guardian has reported.

At present, the PA provides free raw news footage to the Manchester Evening News, owned by the Guardian Media Group and to the regional arm of the Trinity Mirror group as part of a six-month trial period.  

Nick Jones, former BBC political correspondent talked about the advantages of newspapers' video use in a panel with Lain Dale and Paul  Staines at the Foreign Press Association.

Jones said that audio and video material, when used properly on newspaper websites, brings journalism to a new and better level. "Newspapers are making money out of video and audio. They are buying up exclusive material obtained in dubious circumstances - but it is getting good ratings," he said.

The Press Association is to launch the UK's first ever domestic video wire service on May 5th. Aiming to "support newsgathering for an increasingly converged media", the "competitively priced service" will be offered to UK broadcasters and publishers, and will be offered free to regional newspapers on a 6 month trial basis. Tony Watson, Press Association Managing Director said that in launching the video wire, "we firmly establish the Press Association as the news agency for Digital Britain".

The video wire will cover up to 30 stories per day, ready for broadcasters to edit for themselves - the Press Association believes that this will enable broadcasters to concentrate more upon their distinctive journalism, and offset the often high costs of video reporting. It will also use its training arm to provide courses on digital reporting for newspaper clients, so that they can use the video wire to its full potential.

The BBC is to unveil proposals tomorrow for a deal with local news providers that would see the national broadcaster share resources with newspapers, TV and radio stations. The suggestions will be outlined at an industry summit hosted by UK culture secretary Andy Burnham on Tuesday, which had been arranged to discuss ways to assist local papers, which have been heavily hit by the fall in advertising revenue.

BBC proposals include giving local papers free access to video content for their websites, allowing them access to its college of journalism, sharing audio content with community and local radio reporters, and making its iPlayer technology available to rivals so that they can build their own video-rich websites, reported the Guardian.

Newsy.com is a web news service, recently partnered with the Missouri School of Journalism, that organises the news and provides several angles on each story. It has claimed to be the first news site to provide daily "multi-perspective" views of world news.

Launched just before the US presidential elections in 2008, Newsy.com produces short videos that show the different ways in which stories are being reported. To gather news, there are rotating editorial teams that observe reports from television, newspapers, magazines, blogs and other Internet sources.

A Glasgow journalist at the Herald and Times group was recently suspended for refusing to use a video camera on a job. The reporter was never trained to use a video camera,  but was immediately suspended.

Paul Holleran, the union's national organizer in Scotland, told Press Gazette that "he was approached to take a video camera on a story. He didn't have any technical training or health and safety training." He added that "there's no logic attached to their decision, that's why it's so shocking. I just hope it's not victimization. It just seems a complete over-reaction."

Pat Kiernan, a news anchor for In the Papers, a New York City cable news program, will start an online national, American, edition of the show Monday, called PatsPaper.com.

In the Papers reviews the morning tabloids and broadsheets with an odd spin to it. PatsPapers.com will do the same by reviewing papers worldwide, using editors in Europe and a producer in New York. There will be an e-mail digest and a webcast.

Getty Images and Agence France-Presse have announced a new global video partnership which will allow both companies to market their video in English through the other. Its is a new development in a long standing collaboration between the two, and will allow the AFP to "complement with entertainment material its already richly varied service on current affairs, politics, the environment, lifestyle and fashion".

Erik Monjalous, AFP's group sales and marketing director, explained that the extension of the partnership into video media a logical progression for both parties. Lee Martin, Getty's senior vice president of sales for Europe and Asia Pacific said "the daily distribution of AFP's multiple news stories from around the globe is an excellent addition to our editorial, archive, and creative footage collections".

Video, as Monjalous points out, is "a medium in worldwide expansion". It is an increasingly important part of news reporting, and is well integrated into many news sites. This development in the Getty and AFP partnership displays the increasing importance and presence of multimedia in journalism.  

Source: AFP

In two parallel but entirely separate moves, Thomson Reuters and Johnston Press have announced plans to increase video content on their sites.  Reuters is launching a new video service in June for clients which "will provide live and searchable financial markets coverage, analysis and breaking news" according to an article on its site.  The video channel will not run all day, nor will it be available to the general public or be funded by advertising.  Instead, it will available to paying professional clients and will be accessible and searchable in a similar manner to sites such as youTube.  

The move is part of a $1 billion project to update Reuters' products and infrastructure to make them more useful to financial professionals.  Explaining the theory behind such investment when much of the media industry is making cutbacks, Devin Wenig chief executive of the markets division said that it is simply "what the company must do to keep performing well".

Morning conferences at the Guardian are to be made available to all employees, presumably in an effort to further improve communications following the paper's move to new premises in Kings Place last December as part of its print and online integration strategy. The paper has been experimenting with making its morning news conferences more inclusive, by giving non newsroom based reporters the possibility of participating via video conference.

Even though the Tribune Co. recently filed for bankruptcy - last week they launched The Syndicate, "a new online multimedia content marketplace bringing the latest news, lifestyle stories and sports reports to visitors of Tribune Co.'s television and newspaper web sites," Editor & Publisher reports.

The marketplace provides access to content through interactive elements - including video, photos, graphics, trivia and quizzes.  

France's leading sports daily, L'Equipe has launched a new iPhone site, CB News reports.  Other French newspapers such as Le Figaro have also launched iPhone applications recently.

The site allows users to access content from L'Equipe's website, watch video footage and listen to the radio.

Source: CB News

In addition to increasing its international presence, Al Jazeera has announced that it has launched a mobile news site.  Most recently, Al Jazeera released video coverage of the events taking place in the Gaza Strip for free because it is one of the only news organizations currently allowed in Gaza.

The new mobile news service is both in English and Arabic and will carry Al Jazeera headline news, business reports and sports coverage, reports Brand Republic.

According to journalism.co.uk, Al Jazeera English will provide daily news bulletins for the Independent's website. 

The videos will be two to three minutes in length and updated throughout the day.  Managing director of the Independent.co.uk, Bill Swanson said the agreement was "another key partnership for the ongoing evolution of the website". 

The Wall Street Journal has launched a three-part video on its website entitled "The End of Wall Street," Media Bistro reports.  This is the WSJ.com's first long-form video series.  

The video explains "how the housing bubble inflated and burst, the rippling effects across the economy and look at what's ahead for the global economy."