Comments on: Investing in video and the future of local news http://www.theexplodingnewsroom.com/2008/04/01/investing-in-video-and-the-future-of-local-news/ by john hassell Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Rosenblum http://www.theexplodingnewsroom.com/2008/04/01/investing-in-video-and-the-future-of-local-news/#comment-466 Rosenblum Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:49:14 +0000 http://www.theexplodingnewsroom.com/2008/04/01/investing-in-video-and-the-future-of-local-news/#comment-466 As both newspapers and video migrate to the web and meet each other, I think we have a unique opportunity to invent, essentially, a new grammar for online journalism. It is one thing to simply post print stories or tv video online. It is another to take the tools that the convergence of print, video and internet present and create (or begin the process of creating) a whole new way of gathering stories and telling them to the community in powerful and compelling ways. The day after Gutenberg invented the printing press, he could have published The New York Times. He had all the technology he needed in his basement. What he was lacking (and what would take 350 more years) was the ability to seize that technology and shape it into a new grammar. I hope we will be able to do it somewhat faster. As both newspapers and video migrate to the web and meet each other, I think we have a unique opportunity to invent, essentially, a new grammar for online journalism. It is one thing to simply post print stories or tv video online. It is another to take the tools that the convergence of print, video and internet present and create (or begin the process of creating) a whole new way of gathering stories and telling them to the community in powerful and compelling ways.

The day after Gutenberg invented the printing press, he could have published The New York Times. He had all the technology he needed in his basement. What he was lacking (and what would take 350 more years) was the ability to seize that technology and shape it into a new grammar. I hope we will be able to do it somewhat faster.

]]> By: Allen Taylor http://www.theexplodingnewsroom.com/2008/04/01/investing-in-video-and-the-future-of-local-news/#comment-464 Allen Taylor Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:00:08 +0000 http://www.theexplodingnewsroom.com/2008/04/01/investing-in-video-and-the-future-of-local-news/#comment-464 Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road. Allen Taylor Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.

Allen Taylor

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