The print version of this story talked about Tony Brown’s history. They talked about his college life all the way up until his death. The video version was straight to the point. The video said the news that he died and gave some brief stats on his NBA reffing career.
The print version took a few minutes to read all the way through. The video was 35 seconds long.
The print version had quotes from his family and friends about Brown. The only source that the video had was “per sources.” Neither print nor video had any specific attributions listed.
Surprisingly, the video had no sound it cycled through around 5-6 pictures of Brown reffing NBA games. The print version only has 2 pictures at the top of the article. You also have to click an arrow to see the second image.
Overall, the print and video versions show the article in very different ways. The print version takes the time to talk about Brown’s life whereas the video only focuses on his NBA reffing career. The video’s purpose was to give the viewer all of the information as quickly as possible and the print version was for people who wanted to know who Tony Brown was as a person.
“Surprisingly, the video had no sound it cycled through around 5-6 pictures of Brown reffing NBA games.”
That could be a result of what is called B-roll, which is video of something other than the actual event or people involved. In this case the station probably didn’t have video of Brown, but were able to get stills, probably from the AP, or maybe from their records. You often see the “cycling” when a story goes longer than the reporter thought it would. They have to re-use the B-roll more than once.
As far as content: I don’t know what the sources were, but the video might be more accessible to NBA fans, who only want to know about his NBA life.