Nexpo is underway, newspapers are serious about video

By David Johnson 

I’m currently at Nexpo, the Newspaper Association of America’s technology meeting. As usual, the show floor has lots of neat machines and it is a great place to shop for fun things like presses, inserters, editorial systems, and all that good stuff. This year, though, there are quite a few items on the agenda that pertain to online content, and especially video. Apple hosted a well-attended breakfast event to tout their rich media storytelling tools, and Adobe is selling their editing suite. Rob Curley is here, so hallways are buzzing about his newspaper video work like Naples’ Studio 55 and onBeing. Disruptive innovation is a hot topic. While they are still taking care of the ink and paper business, newspaper technologists are definitely not hiding their heads in the sand.

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