The Washington Post’s online group, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, relaunched several weeks ago with a blunt new stance on online video: they like it. So it wasn’t such a huge surprise to find out this morning that PrezVid has now found a home on Chris Cillizza’s politics blog on WashingtonPost.com.
PrezVid is a more astute version of YouTube’s CitizenTube, providing original video interviews and embedded YouTube clips about the presidential campaigns with news and commentary included. After launching in January, the site catapulted owner, content creator, and primary correspondent Jeff Jarvis (who is also a blogger, an old media journalist, CEO of Exploding Video Productions) to even higher fame in the new media circuit.
The partnership doesn’t appear to have changed PrezVid’s content or style, it simply allows Chris Cillizza to post Jarvis’ vids on the Washington Post blog with a little bit of written context. It helps to round out the online newspaper experience, I suppose, and I imagine that the vlog will be seeing some added veracity now that WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive is underwriting the formerly low-budget vlog.
