Lunchtime at work is now prime time for watching online videos -- and newspapers are taking notice, the New York Times says today in a fascinating story about "video snacking." Landmark Communications' Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and E.W. Scripps' Ventura County Star in California started posting videos at lunchtime that have young journalists as hosts and are meant to appeal to 18- to 34-year-old audiences, the NYT says.Is your Gannett paper scheduling video for lunchtime? Use this link to e-mail me. See Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the sidebar, upper right. Or leave a note in the comments section, below.
[Image: Tennessee teenage video star Chris Crocker in his infamous and kind of disturbing Leave Britney Alone! The 2:11-minute video, launched on YouTube just four months ago, has been viewed more than 15 million times and is now the site's second most-discussed video ever, drawing more than 210,000 comments]
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