It’s been a little under a month since the break was made from “the old place” and I launched into a YouTube nightly newscast covering all the first amendment auditing news that I’d normally report on strictly in written form.
In that time, I’ve had to adjust a lot about my life, because of the fact that I was now taking on about two more hours per day to produce and record audio content to supplement my efforts on our long form written website.
I’m honestly trying to improve every day and it’s been a month of ups and downs. Stylistically, I’m comfortable with the evolution of the product I’m putting out every day. I’ve come a long way with the daily newscasts and my news reading it getting better.
The format I’m using for the video/audio reports is getting a bit more professional as I’ve switched to Adobe Premiere and Adobe Audition instead of Adobe Express, and I think you’ll be seeing some of my best work ever as things move forward later this week.
Remember, I’m self-taught, and less than two weeks ago, I had no clue on how to use either product, let alone on the level where I’d be producing a nightly newscast.
I’ve had setbacks for sure in the past month. My throat is a mess. The usual mix of allergies and early summer sinus infections have knocked me off my feet a couple of times over the past week and a half and as I write this, at 4:52AM ET, I don’t know when I’ll sleep again as I need to get recordings done and the paper out before the start of the Karen Read murder trial at 8:25AM this morning.
Doing coverage of the murder trial has been fun with my co-hosts Hank and Phil. I am constantly amazed that they decided to come over with me and have been such a huge part of our daily programming.
I honestly don’t know what I’d do without them, and I owe them both so much as we look towards the future on the channel and as the Karen Read murder trial wraps up.
That said, I’m striving to grow our audience as well. I know it’s only been a month, but we’re surviving on donations from some really big doners at the moment. One thing I’m changing is adding Steam Elements donations to every live event, as we’re not yet monetized.
YouTube shorts are also coming, if I can find a way (or hours in the day) in order to do them in a compelling fashion. I understand that we’re in a niche market, but every day I’m exploring new opportunities for promotion to get word out there that we’re growing and expanding.
Our week in review show is more than likely going to a pre-recorded format and the time will be changing to 7PM ET/6PM where it counts/5PM Mountain and 4PM PT each Sunday night.
I’m trying to keep up with the Featured Videos and Live Events daily updates. I’ve just been running so hard lately that I don’t know if I can keep up with them on a daily basis. I apologize for that but will be making an effort to keep them alive as we go forward.
With that… Please share our links. Please donate if you can. Please keep me from forgetting to unmute my microphone on the daily broadcasts. And please know that this paper and channel is nothing without you.
All your help is appreciated at this time and as always, thank you for your time, your efforts and your patience. It’s been a long month, it’ll be a longer summer, and we’ll strive to find our niche in the mad world that is 1A reporting.
Jim
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Would it be more profitable to stop the paper and only post videos on your channel? I know the paper is dear to your heart but maybe try it for a few months and see what happens? You can always go back but your reporting can reach out to a million topics in videos and you have class and manners that are greatly needed on youtube!!
Well, the catch 22 is that I read the news stories from the paper on the YouTube videos. I’m still going to be writing them, so I may as well continue to put out the paper. That said, we are expanding the channel outside of the boundaries of the paper. So we’ll see what happens.