Salem-News.com Videos Take a Step Forward With Google

Bigger is better when it comes to video screens, and our new size will allow more people to enjoy our streaming news reports.

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(SALEM) - I remember my mind racing when first considering the notion of posting television news style video reports in the Web, it held incredible possibilities. It took many years, but they are behind us now and the Web is a strong competitor with TV news since the arrival of high speed video streaming. The idea of using the Internet as a venue for news brought into view a world where stories are not whittled down into one or two-minute reports on TV news, or edited to a few scant paragraphs in a newspaper. Web news sites are the first communication platforms with little in the way of limitation.

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This possibility of Web video allowed many of us to envision a world where stories include more facts and details, where enough information can be delivered to give an idea of what it was like to actually be there.
That vision is today’s on-demand Internet news.

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Salem-News.com has been paving the way in this field for more than two years, gradually building to the point where we launched video and audio reports. Our core group hails from the ranks of the broadcast news industries, and the Internet was the newest and most logical tool for delivering news that we had ever seen. The latest count reveals more than 60 reports in our video section. Through our Web Designer Matt Lintz, we are learning what people want and need when it comes to the delivery of local, multi-media Internet news. Web video is a highly compressed version of a story that you would see on television. The quality is diminished in order for the Web to handle it. At Salem-News.com we use a mixture of equipment that still maintains an emphasis on quality. We use full size broadcast news cameras similar to what you see Portland TV news crews using, and that initial quality that we gain with better aquisition equipment shows clearly with our final products in color quality and other areas like audio. But even in these middle ground growing stages when the video is less than perfect, there is

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great video on the Web to watch and the processes involved in getting it there are emerging, seemingly by the day. While Salem does have a UHF television station, KWVT Channel-52, there is not a specific Salem, Oregon newscast available to watch, and that was the inspiration for the creation of this site in the first place.

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When I was a photojournalist/reporter for Portland's ABC station KATU Channel-2, I came to see the need Oregon's capitol city had when it came to daily news and information. While Salem-News.com is not a television station or a newspaper, we try to take the best from both worlds and combine them into a news organization that does not rely on the falling of trees for its very existence, or mountainous power bills involved in powering a broadcast transmittor. Our video reports have traditionally been posted on the Web video server livedigital.com, and now we are also utilizing the Google Video service to bring our products to you on a bigger size screen. Our video news reports are unique because you do not have to select a media player and open a new window and page just to watch a story. From the beginning, our video stories have the written version at the top, and then you scroll down to the video report on the screen that is already on the page, waiting for you to simply hit play. Because our videos are flash presentations, they are among the most widely and easily accessed video stories on the Web. Now that we are starting to post our video news reports to the Google Video server, and the actual video screen size is larger, our stories are easier to see. A great example is at the bottom of the page, it is a report on the Night of Fire Car Show that has been enlarged. We hope that people share their thoughts with us on how we can continue to improve this aspect of our service. =========================================================== HERE IS TIM KING'S NIGHT OF FIRE CAR SHOW REPORT FROM SALEM-NEWS.COM