Chapter 10Company Profiles

From October 2013 until February 2014, my colleague, Abbey Adkison, and I traveled across the country to visit newsrooms and interview video producers for our Video Now report (videonow.towcenter.org). We observed documentary producers, digital-first properties, and traditional print publications that were starting to produce more and more original news video programming. We quickly discovered that each organization had different resources and goals for their video teams. Some newsrooms had two video producers on staff, while others had dozens. Some focused on weekly talk shows; others were committed to producing long-form documentary films.

All of the organizations we visited did have a few things in common. They were ...

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