Alan Formby-Jackson

From media.guardian.co.uk

Johnston Press, owner of the Yorkshire Post and more than 300 other newspaper titles, is stepping up its online programme by converting 70 newsrooms into multimedia operations that file video reports as well as written stories.

The UK’s second largest regional newspaper group said it would roll out a trial at the Preston-based Lancashire Evening Post and across an estimated 70 other offices around the country by the middle of next year.

The Preston newsroom, which employs around 50 journalists, has been reorganised so journalists can file video reports for streaming on the newspaper’s website. A revamped news editing operation co-ordinates rolling news coverage across the internet, mobile phone and newspaper.

Tim Bowdler, chief executive of Johnston Press, said the group had invested “hundreds of thousands of pounds” in the Preston office - including the hiring of four new employees - but he expected the group-wide roll-out to be achieved at minimal cost.

More here: http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,1807209,00.html

My paper, the Evening Gazette which is owned by Trinity Mirror, is already hot on the video thing. Training up journalists now to use the cameras.

Check out the video link at the homepage, which has footage of a charity run and a look round the new Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art which is being built.

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/

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