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Live streaming is the future of newspaper news video online, says Telegraaf editor

Posted: 03/03/08 By: Laura Oliver

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Newspaper websites must consider live streaming to keep their online video content relevant, a senior editor of a leading European newspaper has said.

Charles de Vroede, deputy chief editor of Dutch newspaper de Telegraaf, told Journalism.co.uk the future of newspaper video would be live streaming, because any other format would lack immediacy.

De Vroede, who was part of a panel on newspaper video at the Digital News Affairs (DNA) conference, said de Telegraaf staff were already using cameras with live streaming capabilities to publish to its website to cover entertainment news stories.

"News videos online quickly become very old. For a newspaper in print that's not a problem, because everything is a day old. Being on the web as a newspaper means instantaneous news and this will happen for video," said de Vroede.

"I believe the future is in live streaming - for me live streaming is the missing link between newsgathering and newswriting."

However, fellow panelist Bas Broekhuizen, editor of Volkskrant TV, said live video news was too expensive for newspaper websites to produce and offers 'no longtail effect' for publishers' sites.

Broekhuizen said newspaper video online should not try to compete with television broadcasters, but should focus on producing video in formats that have a long-term appeal to viewers as opposed to breaking news.

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