Newspaper video

Newspapers keep adding more online video and getting better at doing it. The Washington Post started by training almost 200 print reporters to shoot video; now they're giving still photographers video cameras and having them shoot daily stories. Chet Rhodes, a former TV guy, is now assistant managing editor for news video at washingtonpost.com. He told Andy Plesser that the paper's goal is "to get everyone on board with video as a storytelling medium." (Link via Mindy McAdams)

Another newspaper is getting into the online newscast game. "Ledger Live" from the Newark Star-Ledger is "not local TV news." But what is it, exactly?

Check the Webcast here [it debuted on Monday, July 28]. Care to compare it to what other papers have done? Read the updated AJR column.