Red Bull is known for extreme sports video, and they are at it again. This time they have done it in full 360. Today's video of the day is a 360 video of wingsuit racing, a new extreme sport where people in wingsuits glide through an aerial course. It's kind of hard to explain so you'll just have to check it out for yourself.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to 360 and VR technology. This new technology is already very popular and is just at the stage when people are using it to similar ends that they would a normal camera or action camera. We are certainly excited to see what new things can be done with 360 and VR and how new ways of telling stories will be developed.
Character-driven journalism is not new to newspapers, though it once was. It was once called The New Journalism in the 1960s — see Truman Capote or Tom Wolfe. Today it is industry standard. Why not take the Sopranos or Breaking Bad formula and marry it to TV journalism? (How many interviews have you seen in The Sopranos? How many Man on the Street soundbites have you seen in Breaking Bad?)
There is a great deal of concern, well placed, that few people under the age of 30 watch TV news.
Viewership of TV news in general has fallen off, so naturally, TV executives across the boards are searching for a solution. How to appeal to a demographic that spends most of their time on social media?