Long a leader in creating and publishing original and stylized video journalism, the Washington Post is educating a large number of print journalists in how to use video cameras. Some 185 staffers have been trained, according to Chet Rhodes, Assistant Managing Editor for News Video at the washingtonpost.com

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Further, the paper is providing low cost Canon HF 100 video cameras to several of its staff photographers.

I caught up with Chet in New York this week at Advertising 2.0.

Training Not a Moment Too Soon

Above is a video of Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer in a meeting at the Washington Post earlier this week telling editors that the print piece of most media will be gone in 10 years.

— Andy Plesser