Get Certified As A Professional VJ in London This Summer!
VJ Bootcamp in Nairobi with the UN Take the next step. Learn to be a professional video journalist this summer in London, England. Our partnership with The Guardian, one of the most highly repected newspapers in the world is starting...
Read moreAdam Ellick – Journalist
Adam Ellick Two years ago we gave our $15,000 Concentra Prize for Video Journalism to Adam Ellick Adam is a VJ for The New York Times. Even to this day, a lot of people denigrate the idea of a...
Read moreDutch Public TV Network Looking To Hire VJs Worldwide. Interested?
Predictable? You bet! OK We’ve been talking for a while about the burgeoning market for video. Now, I have received an email from a show on Dutch Public Television and they’re looking for a few VJ correspondents worldwide. Here’s...
Read moreRodale Goes to Video
First day at Rodale This week we are at Rodale Inc. They’re the folks who publish, (among other things), Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Bicycling, Runner’s World, Running Times… and lots more. Now, they’ve moving their editorial staff into the...
Read moreConcentra Award Winners
Award winner Adam Ellick, NY Times Last week, in Antwerp, we awarded the Fifth Annual Concentra Award for Videojournalism. This year’s winner was Adam Ellick, a videojournalist for The New York Times. We liked Ellick’s work for a number...
Read moreFlying High With Yaroslav Kofman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiydUnzTyEY[/youtube] Not bad for a first client… For those of you who took the Travel Channel Academy in Santa Barbara or Los Angeles, or who were in the Radio Free Europe bootcamps in Prague, Yaroslav Kofman will be a...
Read moreWhy Network News is Dead
And that’s the way it is… The announcement by ABC News last week that they are going to cut 300-400 jobs, a full 20% of their news staff is only confirmation of what we predicted along time ago: That...
Read moreMore on ABC’s VJ Flip
Dutch Public TV in 2004 is now ABC News in 2010….eventually all things come ABC News’ decision to embrace the VJ model is apparently going to go much deeper than we first thought. What appeared to be a mere...
Read moreABC News Goes VJ
finally… ABC News today announced major layoffs. 300-400 positions are going to be eliminated. Most interesting in the announcement today is the decision by David Westin that the network news organization is going to move toward VJ based newsgathering....
Read moreVaughan 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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