One of the things that I don’t understand is how organizations that don’t have, in the case of the Mangosteen story, 7 photographers, a videographer, writer, narrator and maybe 3 producers at their access to tell a story like that. Most of their stories listed 3 or more photographers/videographers alone. In the era of shrinking staff and budgets does this produce a “video divide” between news online/printing giants (NYT, Washington Post and Dallas Morning News) and every other online news organization? News magazines aren’t close to being competition to the above, for instance the video on Time.com are painful to watch.

What does this mean for your mid sized new pub with a daily circ around 50K with 5 staff photographers? A slow or an instant death due to the video divide? There is no way for them to produce video remotely as polished as the Giants. With the awards going to the slick big budget productions should the local/regional online pub even bother with video?

But NYT is the best one of if not the best Web site’s out there…so kind of conflicting for the rest of us.