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Andy Dickinson has spent the last week dissecting the UK online video efforts of four newspapers so you don’t have to.
Today, he delivers 10 tips to improve your video. Check them out, and be sure and thank him.
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Nine out of 10 web users watch video, says comScore data

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UPDATE: More coverage from Doug Fisher and Jackie Alexander (a former USC Gamecock editor), who has some not-too-kind words.
Late this afternoon, I was alerted by Will Sommer, whose been blogging at Georgetown’s Voice this summer, that the Campus Daily Guide site was now password protected. Sure enough, I went to www.campusdailyguide.com and discovered this screen:

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Last spring, readers may recall the huge coverage we gave to a push by the Roanoke Times to create a college social media site named BigLickU. You can see all of that coverage here.
Well, it appears that BigLickU has been shuttered. If you go to BigLickU.com, you are redirected to the Roanoke.com main web page. […]

Image by Andrea Alessandretti via FlickrMeranda Watling explains how the news business is changing via an anecdote. Read it and learn from it, journalism students.
That story that broke at 4:30? It came in via an e-mail tip. I actually “broke” the news about 4:40 p.m. I had quickly confirmed the gist of it and wrote […]

Colin Mulvaney writes about how to not lose viewers with the opening of your video. I’d say that crafting a great opening to a video is akin to writing a great lede for a story, just with lots of fancy equipment and computers.
The post has lots of good examples of each possibility.

Andy Dickinson follows up on a previous post by expanding his comments on Fair Use in the United Kingdom, more commonly known as Fair Dealing.
So it seems that there is a lot more to law than just contempt and libel. Perhaps that hour you set aside to teach yourself soundslides or play with Twitter might […]

Image via WikipediaMindy McAdams comes through again today with a post titled The Survival of Journalism: 10 Simple Facts.
Let’s see if I can condense them down (although it’s worth going over there and reading her entire post):

Free content isn’t wrong.
Newspapers ≠ journalism
Journalism  = $$$$
Citizen Journalism won’t replace “Big J” Journalism
NewsPAPER is a fading delivery format.
There’s […]

Interactive Narratives, the multimedia database site begun by Andrew DeVigal many moons ago, has relaunched with a spiffy new interface, new multimedia stories, and even a Facebook fan page.
Welcome to Interactive Narratives 2.0, a site designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling around the country and the world. Unlike the original IN, submission […]

Via PaidContent, the Center for Social Media at American University has published a “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video.”
More and more, video creation and sharing depend on the ability to use and circulate existing copyrighted work. Until now, that fact has been almost irrelevant in business and law, because broad distribution […]

Mindy McAdams posts a pointed reminder, in case you needed one, that people shouldn’t go into journalism for the money (complete with a nice graphic).
She also notes the financial troubles of the newspaper industry:
The newspaper business is in deep financial trouble right now — jobs are being eliminated continually. But there are still jobs out […]