Video Storytelling

Abstract

Video has been a dominant mode of news distribution ever since information purveyors came up with ways to disseminate it. “Newsreels” screened in movie theaters informed the public in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. Hitler’s Nazi propaganda machine used video purporting to be news to infect the minds and hearts of rank-and-file Germans, Austrians and others.

Professional Advice

The best way to serve the public is to provide accurate, unbiased information. Don’t look for information to confirm what you think. Look for information to disprove it.

—Kelli Arena, former CNN reporter covering business and national security, and former executive director, Sam Houston State University Center for Journalism and Democracy

Bibliographical Note

This textbook has been a collaborative process spanning five years. Many of the sources quoted in the book were guest speakers or visiting professors in the Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua University. Some of the sources joined the author as panelists or fellow speakers at academic conferences. Others agreed to interviews or exchanged views by email or social media. A few citations are taken from lectures delivered by previous Global Business Journalism Program visiting professors, specifically former co-director James Breiner. The author is grateful to all of these individuals for their participation and contributions to this book.

The following bibliography focuses on printed and online material cited by the author in his text. In our increasingly digital world, many of the sources are from websites and not printed material. Every attempt has been made to clearly state the original source of the material. Special thanks to Bertha Wang Xiaoyu for her work on this bibliography.