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Video Now: The state of video journalism today – a report by the TOW Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School

By Chuck Fadely:

What’s the status of non-broadcast video journalism in 2014?

The TOW Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School released a report today on the state of video journalism. Professor Duy Linh Tu and his crew put together a multimedia report by visiting newspapers, digital media properties, and shows like Frontline and VICE.

From their description of the project: “From October 2013 until February 2014, Tow Fellow Duy Linh Tu and the Video Now film crew visited newsrooms across the United States to interview and observe reporters and editors producing video journalism. Video is an important editorial tool and a potentially large revenue source for newsrooms, but there seemed to be no consensus on how to produce or profit from it. With that in mind, Video Now, set out to answer three main questions: 1) How do news organizations define video 2) How do they produce video? 3) What is their return on investment?”

They introduced the report with a live panel discussion, archived on the video above.

There’s more on Chuck Fadely’s Newspapervideo blog.

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