The previous panels give way to a Q&A between Rafat Ali and Reuters COO Devin Wenig.
The future is not a text-based wire, it’s multimedia. Text wires will be supplemented by multimedia, be it pictures, text, video, social networking that together tells a story. That’s the future of Reuters News, explains COO of Reuters Devin Wenig.
Reuters recently announced a merger with Thomson, and that is still yet to be final, but it is on track. Interestingly, Thomson is Canadian, Reuters is UK-based… will the cultures clash? I don’t think so, and I’m Canadian, so take it from me (the second part’s a joke, of course).
The most interesting parts of Rafat’s Q&A with Devin was his call that “you can’t be a media company if you don’t have video in some form,” yes, that’s music to my ears as one of the larger producers of made-for-web web video. Incidentally, when asked if Reuters will have video, he is quick to distinguish between TV and video. He is against the former, but all of the latter… In fact, he sees the future of media as:
- multimedia
- multiplatform
- monetized across the board.
Companies can no longer live in the boxes they’ve created for themselves in the past. Ultimately, all of the trends that we’re seeing in consumer media will have a big impact on B2B publishing and media.
Quite true. The guy seems quite on the ball, must be a Canuck.
Yes, once again, I’m kidding, I think.
Tags: Reuters, Thomson|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Oct 30th
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