David, one of the UK's leading video journalists, said: "The Vlog gives an idea of the work the print journalists undertake and how intuitively they have adapted their skills for this new visual media.

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"What we are witnessing is real inroads into web TV making which is taking off on broadband."

What David does stress is that video journalism is significantly different to TV news in its visual content.

The course is the only programme in the UK designed specifically to retrain existing newsaper staff as video journalists and has attracted worldwide attention.

Delegates undertake two initial weeks of camera and editing training and then, after a period of workplace development, return for a thrid week of further classroom-based development.

During the third week of the course, the trainees, who come from a variety of daily newspapers across the UK, took part in a live exercise at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle.

They were tasked with producing a 90-second package of content for publication on a website.

Delegate Andrew Jackson, of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, said: "It has been an excellent grounding in video journalism. The three weeks have given me the confidence and skills to go back to my newspaper and produce high-quality journalistically-strong video packages."