Speaking of video …

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Melissa Worden

I just realized I hadn’t blogged about this before. Silly me.

I’ve been up to my eyebrows in work the past couple months. And one of my major projects was working with Dayport to create a new video player for heraldtribune.com.

Other New York Times Regional Media Group papers are using Brightcove, a smart application to be sure. But one advantage this company gives us is that it integrates nicely with our content management system Publicus. And we custom-built a player to our specifications.

A couple of features I love:
>> Embed code for bloggers
>> Videos sorted by content
>> Related stories box will bring in both video and text content
>> Click the “latest headlines” button in the screen on the right side and you’ll get a list text headlines (I don’t know how much this is used, but I think it’s nice as a reader to move between media.)

Herald-Tribune Media Group includes the print paper, heraldtribune.com, and SNN News 6 — a 24-hour cable news channel. So we’re quite lucky to have a lot of short video reports without much extra work (just the Web posting production time). This will give us time, hopefully, to start producing some online-only content.