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,