The news business is rarely funny. Much of what we do every day is report on devastating acts of nature, the plight of those without voices – the problems of the world. For most of those stories it’s best to rely on the Joe Friday approach: just the facts, which almost always speak louder than any adjective you could throw at them. But sometimes it’s good to find an interesting story and tell it in a funny way. Here, video can really shine. A few examples: Myles Kane’s video of Apollo Robbins deftly lifting New Yorker writer Adam Green’s wallet, watch and cell phone; my New York Times colleague Erik Olsen’s profile of a singing ode to Charles Darwin; the weird wonders of the miracle fruit, which I made with another colleague, Kassie Bracken, who expertly edited and found the wonderful loopy music....
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