Ditching YouTube
Writer Sarah Lacey at Pando Daily has a great piece about Nigerian Entrepreneur Jason Njoko. Njoko is building a company called Iroko which offers a distribution channel for independent producers from Nigeria.
Writer Sarah Lacey at Pando Daily has a great piece about Nigerian Entrepreneur Jason Njoko. Njoko is building a company called Iroko which offers a distribution channel for independent producers from Nigeria.
There are times when you encounter a movie trailer that is so intense that it shakes the foundation of everything you thought was possible.
The British Journal of Photography has relaunched this week, returning to being a monthly publication after 146 as a weekly one.
The new monthly magazine is a very different beast, however. Rather than compete with online news, it seeks to complement it, making use of the print format for what it does best.
In an explanatory post, editor Simon Bainbridge writes:
“We believe that print magazines have a positive future, but somewhere along the line publishers have lost sense of what makes them so appealing, and in doing so they’ve given too much ground to the internet. Why do something in print that you can do equally well on the web?
“So, when we began thinking about what we could deliver as a monthly, we decided to play to the strengths of print. While many magazines are cutting costs and chasing readers that now have an allegedly shorter attention span, we are investing, rewarding them with a redesigned magazine that uses higher quality paper, has superior repro and delivers more depth.”
This is a fascinating move by the magazine and certainly an excellent route to follow. I particularly like seeing the phrase “play to the strengths of print” in there, because it shows the mag will offer content that you simply can’t find on the internet.
It’s a further sign that there’s a thriving future for print as a medium for depth, analysis and quality. Breaking news can stay on the web, where it has found its new home.
Over at today’s Daily Telegraph, there’s a great little photo slideshow of Journals from the archives, as well as a sneak peak into the pages of the new edition.
Arielle Emmett has written a sombre and thought-provoking piece for the American Journalism Review, discussing the role and impact of graphic photojournalism in the wake of the recent Haitian earthquake.
With natural disaster and war comes violent and bloody death; in some cases on such a scale that it’s hard to take in.
Colin Mulvany, multimedia producer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, writes a sobering and thought-provoking article outlining his vision of photojournalism in the age of the internet.
His view is simple: photojournalists can cling to their still cameras and remain “purists” – or they can embrace audio and video devices, adding them to what he calls their “storytelling toolboxes”. He’s pretty sure he knows which of the two strategies is going to be most successful in the coming years.
