Yesterday, at the much talked about iWantMedia panel on the future of the media, Gawker Media founder visionary Nick Denton said that a third of Gawker Media posts have a video element.*
Gawker blogs don't publish much in the way of original videos, the videos are
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embeds from other sources and videos culled from a rack of DVR's which monitor a number of cable channels, nonetheless, for us over at Beet.TV, this extraordinary degree of video integration into news reporting and blogging. It's a big deal, very exciting.
After the panel ended, I interviewed David Carr, media columnist for the New York Times about the value of the moving image. He also spoke about the evolution of blogging as serious reporting.
Andy Plesser, Executive Producer
*You can watch Nick's comments on this continuous stream of yesterday's one hour session.
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