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Elk Point, United States

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What news organization do you work for?
Sioux City Journal
Which of these best describes your day job?
Editor
About Me:
I'm an online news director for a 41,000-circ daily in northwest Iowa.
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http://www.siouxcityjournal.com
Twitter:
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Video planning and resources

There's a discussion in our newsroom about how we allocate resources when it comes to video.

I'm curious as to how other papers are making decisions regarding the importance of a video component and how they allocate video staff to gather and tell stories.

The main consideration points we are using, besides all the typical news-related criteria, are these:

- shelf life - how long will it be worth viewing

- shooti… Continue

Posted on February 4th, 2008 at 8:27pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 10:07pm on February 4th, 2008, Andrew Satter said…
Hey man, good to hear from you. I was just thinking that I owe you an e-mail from a few months back, so hopefully you'll accept this as payment. DC has been/is great. I've been at the new job for almost three months and I'm having a blast at CQ. We've launched CQ Politics video, which is sort of all over the map right now as we figure out just what kind of voice we want it to have. You can check out some of my initial videos at http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1374481205.

How is everything in the Sioux? Recovering from the Iowa caucuses yet? Only four more years to go. What else have you been working on? Send me some links.

I'm glad you're on here, I will be looking to you for some good old fashioned multimedia discussions infused with a dose of rock n' roll and a pint of cyber beer. Take 'er easy.
 
 

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