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Teaching Online Journalism » MVPs for July — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:39:08 +0000

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Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:23:36 +0000

[…] Newspaper video experts: What they’re doing Chet Rhodes, Regina McCombs and Chuck Fadely rap about video in a series of videos. And Mindy hooked us up with time coded logs of what they said! Awesome customer service. That’s what newspapers should be about. […]

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Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Video on video — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:35:37 +0000

[…] spent the evening with a series of videos I’ve meant to get to for a while — a panel discussion on newspaper video from the University of Florida’s Institute on Journalism and Media — and a great […]

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Teaching Online Journalism » Moving to deadline video online — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:04:53 +0000

[…] who began shooting video for the newspaper in August 2005. I had invited him to come to our video journalism panel at my university, but he couldn’t take the time off (our loss!). This entry was posted on […]

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:39:58 +0000

Shane, I guess you have not seen as many crappy conference videos as I have. These are much, much better than most. Sorry if the quality is too low for you.

By: Waitin’ On a Moment - by Tim Gruber » My first video at Roanoke.

Waitin’ On a Moment - by Tim Gruber » My first video at Roanoke. — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:54:03 +0000

[…] on I was watching the videos Mindy McAdams linked to on her blog about newspapers shooting video. In Chuck Fadley’s portion of the presentation […]

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Good reads for 07.17.07 : the x degree — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:01:05 +0000

[…] Mindy McAdams posted a two-hour video (divided into four parts) of a recent University of Florida panel discussion about video on newspaper Web sites. The experts (Chuck Fadely, Regina McCombs and Chet Rhodes) share video training and workflow tips […]

By: Melissa Worden

Melissa Worden — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:39:42 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this Mindy! And the logs are quite helpful.

By: shane richards

shane richards — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:15:12 +0000

How ironic, or perhaps “tragic” is a better word, that the video of this “experts on video” presentation should be of such crappy, nearly unwatchable quality.

I mean, who shot this? Some bored 8th grade assistant AV assistant?

Seriously, it’s awful production values like these that leave many in this industry shaking their heads at the value of this “revolution.”

And it’s not just this embarrassing video here; this is the norm across the country. I’ve seen video programs at papers of note that seem as if they were shot by high school kids with too much spare time on their hands and no skills.

What a joke.

By: Chuck Fadely

Chuck Fadely — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:14:53 +0000

I’d like to point out that I may have given a wrong impression in describing Roanoke’s videos.

I characterized their video efforts as low end, mixed with photographers’ high-end video. That is not accurate. Rather than using point-and-shoot cameras as I said, they are using decent mini-dv cameras in their newsroom and have brought in outside training for their reporters to make sure their quality stays high. The video I showed during the presentation was not typical of their report.

I was trying to differentiate between Roanoke.com’s deliberately not-like-TV approach to video and the TV-on-the-net approach of their sister company, HamptonRoads.tv. I was trying to point out the very different approaches taken by different papers in the U.S., and made it sound like Roanoke doesn’t do quality work. Nothing could be further from the truth. (In my defense, I was trying to avoid mentioning that paper in California that I usually pick on…. )

I did not highlight some of the great and sophisticated reporter’s work (such as http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/video/wb/120830 (High School graduate takes big steps))that they’re doing in Roanoke on a regular basis, so I left the impression that they’re only doing low-end. They aren’t. Roanoke is doing incredible work in multimedia. Their day-in and day-out multimedia coverage of Virginia Tech athletics is a model for our industry and is something I regularly point to as the way it should be done.

If this sounds like I’m sucking up to Seth Gitner and his work at Roanoke, you’re right. He’s doing things right there and I wronged him when I shouldn’t have. In this era of ever-tightening budgets and reduced resources, Roanoke still manages to produce quality work on a daily basis.

My apologies.

Chuck Fadely