The VJ Registry
Can you see the future……. In 1988 I quit a job at CBS News as a producer for Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, bought a small video camera and went to live in Jabalya, a Palestinian refugee camp in...
Read morePassed Over?
‘and thou shalt have one person with a camera…’ In 2000, following a speech I gave at Newsworld in Barcelona, The BBC invited me to come to the UK to talk about my ‘VJ in the Newsroom’ concept. Following...
Read moreHyperlocal News
Yesterday, we held a press conference in Washington, DC to announce the launch of FiOS1, Verizon’s first local TV news and community information channel. We are fortunate to be partners with Verizon in this very exciting project, and now...
Read moreFrom The Guardian: Newspapers to Video
Michael Rosenblum is a former New York Times executive whose consultancy practice now provides training in video journalism all over the world for clients including the BBC. “Newspapers are very well placed to take advantage of web video –...
Read moreVJ Academy with Travel Channel
For almost 20 years we have been running our VJ Bootcamps all over the world. We have trained more than 5,000 people to work in this way, from London to Japan. But now, with the web going to video,...
Read more$13,000 VJ Prize
Three years ago, we started to award a €10,000 ($13,200) prize for the best European VJ news piece. This year, the Concentra Company (one of the largest newspaper/media groups in Belgium) is expanding the award to include VJs from...
Read moreVJs in Sweden
We have just spent the past two days meeting with VJs from all across Sweden. But first, some background. In 1999, I got a phone call from a Swedish journalist named Leif Hedman. He was a TV reporter for...
Read moreLive From Sweden
I am blogging live from the SVT (Swedish State Broadcasting) videojournalist conference in Vilhelmina, Sweden. I will have a complete report on this by the end of the day. It’s a 2-day conference with VJs from all over Sweden....
Read moreOne Degree-itis
SOME ADVICE FROM A GIANT My mentor in this business was Fred Friendly. He was Edward R. Murrow’s producer, the former President of CBS News, and a moose of a man. He resigned from his postion as President of...
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