Pulitzer & Youtube offer $10,000 Prize for Citizen Journalism

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For the fifth year, we are offering our €10,000 prize for the best VJ piece through our DNA2009 conference (Brussels, March 4-5).

Now Youtube (which has a LOT more money than we do!!!) in partnership with Pulitzer is offering a $10,000 prize for best ‘citizen journalist’ (read that as VJ) piece as well.

So welcome.

Welcome Youtube… we’ll be looking at the entries and hope that this drives the quality and the journalism.

We know that the potential is out there.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 35 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.