For the last year, one student in my class each week held the title of digital producer: the person responsible for creating a social video.
Broadcast news organizations want to hire people who know how to produce social news videos because viewers want to watch them. Promotions and digital departments are already adopting this storytelling medium to increase web clicks which, of course, helps pay the bills. Journalism skills can be used to tell stories on this platform as well.
Here is what a year of social video journalism taught me: