NY Times to start using amateur video

Further evidence that we’re at the cusp of blended pro-am journalism is New York Times decision to start using videos produced by citizen journalists. Per Beet.TV, the videos will run starting tomorrow on the Op-Ed pages of the NYTimes.com. They’ll cover the political campaign and be uploaded through February 5, ‘Super Tuesday.’

An example of a unedited video interview of Mike Huckabee can be accessed here. These down to earth interviews by average folks are pretty cool.

What’s this have to do with lawyers? A lot. Lawyers are already amateur journalists through their well done law blogs. Taken a step further and such blog content is going to be syndicated as legal scholarship and commentary to third party publications or platforms, just as the video is syndicated to the NY Times here.

Beyond text, lawyers are going to move to video, both of themselves reporting on niche areas of the law and interviewing third parties, which these lawyers are uniquely qualified to produce because of their domain expertise.

Source on post: ReadWriteWeb