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Internet News Provider using FCP X
Watch video – about 45 seconds in – Scripps just paid 35 million to buy the AP/News provider
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[Andy Field] “Watch video – about 45 seconds in”
Andy,
They’re also pointing the way to the future about 65 seconds in …
Franz.
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So to get a job in the year 2014, all you need to be is…
Young and telegenic and fresh and be able to write, shoot, edit, do motion graphics, compress, and deliver 42 videos a day (1500 divided by a staff of 35) on a starting salary that may let you cover your big city rent provided you have 3 roommates.
Great times to be in media production!
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Reporters need to be able to focus on getting the news stories, VETTING them, making sure they corroborate the information they recieve, and be able to write it well.
Oh…but not in todays “news” world, where content over truth is king.
To then require them to edit and do graphics and a decent audio mix…Yeah, who has time to properly vet or resource anything?
Shane
Little Frog Post
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[Bill Davis] “… (1500 divided by a staff of 35)”
Bill,
Your math is off. (1500 / month not per day, so by your calculations that’s 42 videos per month, or about 2 a day).
On a wider note, I’ve watched the video and I’m still not sure what these people do.
Franz.
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Did they edit this video on FCPX because the last 3 edits are a mess… One is cut too close and the other is too loose at the end.
Brian Mulligan
Senior Editor – Autodesk Smoke
WTHR-TV Indianapolis,IN, USA
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“…. VETTING them, making sure they corroborate the information they recieve, and be able to write it well”
ROTFLMAO
You are talking about modern news agencies?????????
Marshall McLuhan had the last laugh.
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Bill,
Your math is off. (1500 / month not per day, so by your calculations that’s 42 videos per month, or about 2 a day).
On a wider note, I’ve watched the video and I’m still not sure what these people do.
Franz.”
Mea Culpa.
As to what they do, I suspect they largely take content from the new “newsfeed aggregators” -and re-package it into bite sizes news stories that are mobile friendly.
About half a mile from where I live, one of those huge aggregators is located – they have feeds from all around the globe, and produce the “stories” that show up on your local newscasts around the country every day and night. The fiction that your local TV station is creating the majority of their newscast content the way they used to – by sending reporters out into the streets to gather content is exactly that – it’s fiction.
Next time you watch your local news – watch it with an eye to what’s truly local. If it’s more than 10-20% locally generated I’d be surprised.
Similarly, when something happens of note – a big high profile trial or a large visually attractive disaster – it goes up to the same service and news directors all over the planet can tap into that stream and run it if it’s “sexy” enough.
The sad thing is that what’s now “news” is no longer the most important or the most informative stories for the local audience, it’s the cute waterskiing squirrel footage from Orlando. Cuz that draws more eyeballs than the boring city council meeting where they just quietly gave the city trash hauling contract to the Mayor’s brother in law.
Now if somebody happens to have an iPhone grabbing video in that meeting – AND if somebody knows that “Unified Trash Technologies” is in fact, Mayor connected – then there’s a chance you might find out about it. But without video, it hardly exists anymore as far as news goes.
The service referenced here is just the dawn of the “internet first” video feed era – reflecting precisely the same business model that has already changed the broadcast industry, IMO.
Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
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Well said Shane! News isn’t about how flexible – its about the stories you find and the resources you have in the field.
Michael Sanders
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “On a wider note, I’ve watched the video and I’m still not sure what these people do.”
I thought it was a canned news service… send them a story and they’ll polish up your copy, shoot a “reporter” telling the story, add b-roll and graphics and then send it out via the news aggregates… I assumed that because they mentioned “delighting customers like Microsoft, AOL/Huffuington Post and Mashable”… I don’t think they investigate and vet stories, as much as they polish up and distribute them. That’s my guess anyway.
Shawn
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Bill –
I worked at a broadcast facility for fourteen years, and for at least 10 of those years the news was nothing but infotainment, and national stories produced by the parent company’s DC bureau.
And in your requirements above, you forgot “must be willing to work only 35 paid hours a week so the company doesn’t have to pay benefits.” Oh yes…”and if you’re a shooter, you must provide your own camera”.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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