Al Jazeera and NYVS.com

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11648023[/vimeo]

Award winning

Rhodri Davies, a videojournalist with Al Jazeera submitted a video on Mexico City’s water crisis yesterday on NYVS.

I was delighted to see a story from an Al Jaz VJ.

Every year, we give a $15,000 prize to the best VJ news story worldwide.

Last year’s runner up (there’s a prize for that also) went to Casey Kauffman, a VJ with Al Jazeera.

He went to Gaza and shot, reported, edited and produced the story above.

Al Jazeera is one of many major global news organizations that are rapidly embracing the VJ model  – and when you look at Casey’s video, you can see why,

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.