Recently, our Visual Journalism grad class took a little field trip to Arlington to visit the offices of Washington Post interactive (Washington Post.com).
Below is a brief slideshow I made, featuring our host and guide, assistant multimedia editor, Chet Rhodes. Rhodes made some good points throughout the night, including:
Sometimes "innovation comes at the cost of usability," and we should always be careful balancing the old and new technologies. Or in other words, try to keep it simple for the viewer, but useful.
He also added that their online site was "very profitable" but still not enough to replace the revenue being lost by the print side in downtown D.C.
His overall mission, simply stated: "we want people to come to us for text and video."
He recommended checking out the work of Emmy-award winning MOJO, Travis Fox and noted that when we were filming, "never ZOOM!" and keep the head of the subject touching the top of the screen. Hmmm.
Oh! And he noted that Washington Post.com does now have its own You Tube channel, a valuable ally in the attempt to make videos go viral and reach a wider audience.
Stay tuned.
I also included a video of him that I found on You Tube where he discusses some more of the changes coming to journalism, which mostly revolve around the emerging dominance of visual (video )images over print.
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