Takashi Sakamoto, a veteran journalist and former political reporter who was based in Yomiuri?s Washington, D.C., bureau for several years, transferred from print to become one of the TV news department?s five producers.
Most of Yomiuri?s reporters are involved in new media only to the extent that they?re asked to write a version of a breaking story for the Web site before doing the main story.
Shiraishi wants all of Yomiuri?s new reporters working in the news organization?s outlying bureaus to learn how to use a video camera, but the bureau chiefs -- who want reporters to focus on writing -- are putting up a fight.
Yomiuri YC The Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞 Yomiuri Shinbun) is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities.
Founded in 1874, the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world, having a combined morning and evening circulation of 14,323,781 throughout January 2002.
The Yomiuri Shimbun is also known as the de facto financial patron of the baseball team Yomiuri Giants and the soccer team Tokyo Verdy 1969.