From the course: The Creative Spark: Brian Kaufman, Visual Journalist

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From the course: The Creative Spark: Brian Kaufman, Visual Journalist

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- The state of the newspaper industry is not very healthy. We're obviously in a transitionary period, as print tends to subside, and web is more and more of a focus. At the Free Press, we definitely have an emphasis on web. We're pursuing longform storytelling at a newspaper, and really doing in-depth work. It's something that's pretty unique and special in the country right now. On any online presentation, it's not just just video and stories. There's opportunity to do a lot of different things. I believe that we shot in this building, we're in Building 92. Now we just got to try to find out where it was shot, and then replicate it. No amount of great technology is going to tell a great story. It's a learned process over many years. I think that smartphones and tablets have made video a bigger part of what media and journalists do. But in the end, it is about storytelling.

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