The series can be found on the WEF's Editors Weblog.

Video is becoming a new core competency of newspapers, "but everybody is still figuring out the dos and don'ts of video," says Jean Yves Chainon, an editor of the weblog and author of the series, entitled, "How Much Video?"

He has collected numerous examples of newspaper websites using video to enhance storytelling and focuses on two best-case examples: Le Figaro in France, which is building an in-house video studio; and the French newsweekly Nouvel Observateur, which is producing full-fledged shows as well as the "classic" newspaper video offerings of short reportage and interviews.

The series, which follows an earlier examination of Volksfreund.tv, an online TV channel launched by the German local paper Volksfreund, also provides an overview of industry developments related to the video boom.

The weblog, launched by the World Editors Forum in January 2004, has become a leading international source of information about newsroom developments. In addition to linking to a wide range of industry news stories, the weblog provides its own analysis of newsroom developments, which are collected in the best-selling Trends in Newsroom annual report.

The Paris-based World Editors Forum is the organisation of the World Association of Newspapers that represents editors-in-chief and other senior news executives.