Comments on: Goldman Sachs explainer proves that business videos are hard to do

By: Robin J Phillips

Robin J Phillips — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:53:55 +0000

You can also google most of SABEW’s 2010 Best in Business winners and find great examples.

CNBC’s Boom, Bust and Blame picked up the top prize for large websites: http://www.cnbc.com/id/31187744/

No. 2: The Associated Press: “AP Stress Index”
No. 3: The New York Times: “Living With Less”

The real trick is doing great Web journalism with smaller budgets.

Here are the winners in the mid-size category:
No. 1: GlobalPost: “Living in the Shadows”
No. 2: The (Nashville) Tennessean: “Life On Hold”
No. 3: GlobalPost: “Silicon Sweatshops”

GlobalPost does great work… in some beautiful, exotic places. Check out this slideshow (would have made a nice soundslide):
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/united-kingdom/100714/prince-charles%E2%80%99s-crusade-against-rural-decline

By: Linda Austin

Linda Austin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:10:41 +0000

Here’s another one I like, and it’s about as simple as the Emmy-winning financial crisis one is complex. BusinessJournalism.org blogger Rosland Gammon wrote about Marketplace Money’s Marketplace Whiteboard videos, which explain complex economics: http://businessjournalism.org/2010/02/05/marketplace-money-uses-simple-videos-to-explain-complex-economics/

By: Linda Austin

Linda Austin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:28:50 +0000

Here’s one that works. It’s a multimedia presentation on the financial crisis that won a Business and Financial Reporting Emmy in 2009: http://www.cfr.org/publication/19710/crisis_guide.html