I was talking to John Curry, the director of photography at the Athens Banner-Herald, last night and we got on the topic of video. I told him that it was great the paper was really stepping up to the calls of the industry for a push to video and he paused. He said that it wasn't all that great and I asked him why. John explained to me that he had been sending two photographers to events that he wanted to be shot for stills and video. (That made sense since it would be pretty hard shooting video and with a still camera.) This greatly exhausted his source of staff photographers and he mentioned that he was pretty understaffed this week since they were working on three separate video projects.
So that got me to thinking, should newspapers hire a separate video staff? Should they hire more photographers and teach them video? Where does video fit inside the traditional newspaper model?
p.s. Here's a video that the Athens Banner-Herald posted about the Gym Dogs and the idea behind the "pink out" last weekend.
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That's definitely a question to consider, but I think it could work either way. Do they want more photojournalists that they have to teach video or do they want experienced video guys? Or -- hopefully in our case soon -- journalists with experience in photo and video?
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