EmailThe National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has nominated the Washington Post video team for 17 local Emmy Awards. The Emmys honor excellence in various categories of television, but as many media outlets transition to video they become eligable as well.
This is an example of a news outlet adapting to remain relevant in the new media landscape. The public has clearly moved to the internet as a place to get information, and video is the lingua franca of the Internet. Therefore, in order to stay relevant a print news organization must not only be accesable on the Internet, but also must provide video.
It is not surprising that the Post has received nominations, in the past year it has made some significant improvements to its video operation, and this focus on video seems to be a direct result of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' acquisition of the newspaper. The Post was nominated in categories that encompass many topics.
See the full list here.
Featured Courses
Recent Posts
No News Today — or tomorrow for that matter.
March 26, 2024
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us radio, then TV and now the web. Now, it seems, we are headed back to a world without news. Not because the technology is not there, but rather because, increasingly, people are no longer interested in news, at least in the way it is packaged now.
What TV News Could Be
February 26, 2024
When television was invented in the 1930s, no one knew what TV news was supposed to look like. The medium had never existed before, and so, like Gutenberg half a millennium, prior, the first creators of TV news had to fall back on a medium with which they were familiar, and that was radio.
What Is News? What Should it Be?
February 20, 2024
Maybe scary stories drive ratings… or maybe they don’t.