Vaughan Smith, Videojournalist
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEDRM6l0SKs[/youtube] Lots of us dream of running off to Afghanistan with a small video camera. Vaughan Smith actually did it – and continues to do so. He has just returned from Afghanistan where he was embedded with The Grenadier...
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CBS News ‘correspondent’ Lara Logan posing as a reporter… A few days ago we ran a clip from Newswipe, a BBC parody of ‘news programs’. It was funny. But last night 60 Minutes ran a segment on the war...
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[Youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblwE0Opgfc&rel=1]] Foot Patrol by Raul Gallego Abellan. On March 3-4 we will conduct what I hope will be the world’s largest global VJ conference, DNA2008 in Brussels. As part of that conference, we will award our annual VJ Prize...
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaTgRPr4O4] One of our instructors here at The Travel Channel Academy is Bill Gentile. I first met Bill in 1993, when we were training out very first group of VJs. Bill was a photojournalist for Newsweek, who had cut...
Read moreWho Becomes a VJ?
….Drew Carey, student…. PF Bentley… Instructor…. Risk Takers… One of our regular contributors here got in touch with one of our VJs, Karin Thayer. Following that, he did a bit of research into Thayer’s bio, and posted the following:
Read moreWho Lost Afghanistan?
….jeez… it was here a minute ago….. There are several great advantages to living a trans-Atlantic life: You get to rack up endless frequent flier miles. You get to really understand your body clock. You get to see the...
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