Saving Salish, a disappearing Native American language, produced by Rajah Bose, photographer

The multimedia department gets more video projects coming out of Voice stories than from city news - "So many of the Voice stories are human interest stories," notes managing editor Gary Graham. Rajah Bose is with the photo department, but making that step to videography is a natural transition for this newsroom subset.

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Voice editor Tad Brooks brought up a discussion point this morning though about timing of a video launch. The story that goes with this video has actually not been published yet. In a best-case scenario, online coordinates with print: A bit of promotional text and a URL goes into the story as a graphic element, while the video online would link to the online version of the story. Some of the discussion questions:

- If there's a big gap between video finish time and story publication day, should one wait for the other? Should they be published relatively near each other's launch date, or does it matter?
- What about keeping blog traffic happy? asked multimedia editor Colin Mulvany. On a week where there's not much video, he is more likely to launch a video earlier than story publish date.
- It takes a while to build viewership for online video as it gets linked up and spread out through social networks, but this can also be a way to promote the accompanying story by linking back or previewing it.
- But would it make the story seem stale, when it finally runs? Asked deputy city editor Dan Hansen, to which Mulvany argues that the video and the story are often very different angles.

Managing editor Gary Graham sees this as case-by-case, that "We should put the videos up when it makes sense to do so."

Returning the favor, which accompanies the story
Love, determination help couple power through difficult time: They won't be running, but Swansons will participate in Bloomsday
Produced by Dan Pelle, photographer

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Setting their sights high (with blind bowling)
Produced by Kathy Plonka, also a photographer

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News capsule

Unfortunately, Quinn said, Auto Row currently is home to many of Spokane Valley's "porn shops." But the historic theater that houses Deja Vu Showgirls has potential, she said.

"Let's make it something awesome," Quinn said. "Let's turn it into an auto museum."

Read the rest of this story: Auto dealers want to overhaul area
Businesses, marketers urge council to prioritize revitalization, starting with Auto Row

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