GOOD Stuff Online
NewTeeVee has a look at the new partnership between MySpace and GOOD, a print and online media company.
“Online video is perfectly suited for investigative journalism pieces. It’s just as easy to go out into the field with camera in hand as it is with a tape recorder, and now the final product is no longer limited to the written word but can hit viewers with video and audio as well. On Skid Row, a new five-part series from GOOD and MySpace, takes the cameras into the seedy side of Los Angeles, exploring the issue of homelessness among the 9,000 vagrant bodies in L.A.’s 50 square-block Skid Row.”
This is the sort of stuff that CurrentTV has explored and it is encouraging to see more substanative video making its way online. It will be very interesting to see how this series does in terms of viewers. If it can come close to Quarterlife numbers (not a huge stretch) it would definitely encourage more investigative video.