Video First: How Gulf News is reinventing online news video
Abstract
Online Video is a crucial component of the new media landscape accounting for much of the web traffic to mainstream news organizations website and social media platforms. Most of the news organizations have been building resources over the past years raising their proficiency in handling video. Today they produce regular news headlines in video and provide live streaming using services such as Periscope and Facebook Live. However, legacy new publishers are facing intense competition from digital-native news publishers, as they both have the same goal: Getting more people to watch their video. The recent changes to Facebook ‘newsfeed’ algorithm have worsened the fate of legacy news publishers. In this paper, we analyze the strategies employed by Gulf News in the UAE to create compelling, shareable video content for online and social media. Based on semi-structured interviews with video producers, news editors, and journalist, we find that Gulf News has steadily embraced and adopted new technology. Its early forays into digital video have placed Gulf News at a commanding position as they prepare for the next wave of disruptive technologies.
Keywords
References
- Reference1Zelizer, B. (2007). On “Having Been There”: “Eyewitnessing” as a Journalistic Key Word. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24(5), 408-428. doi:10.1080/07393180701694614
- Reference2Maxwell, R., & Miller, T. (2011). OLD, NEW AND MIDDLE-AGED MEDIA CONVERGENCE. Cultural Studies, 25(4-5), 585-603. doi:10.1080/09502386.2011.600550
- Reference3Jeske, D., Briggs, P., & Coventry, L. (2016). Exploring the relationship between impulsivity and decision-making on mobile devices. Personal Ubiquitous Comput., 20(4), 545-557. doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0938-4
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
-
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Sabir Haque
*
0000-0001-9516-7062
United Arab Emirates
Publication Date
April 30, 2020
Submission Date
April 16, 2019
Acceptance Date
March 26, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 11 Number: 1