A New Ecology Of Video Journalism
By Cliff Etzel • May 14th, 2008 • Category: The Business of VJJeff Jarvis has posted a compelling argument that points out the flaws at the unwillingness of the archaic medium of TV news reporting and why it’s dying a slow, lingering death.
In his post, Jeff points out the massive layoffs and cutbacks at CBS O&O stations news divisions and is in negotiations with CNN to provide their news coverage.
Apply this to the realm of the solo video journalist and you begin to see why the pundits dismiss the Solo VJ paradigm as nothing to worry about.
Guess again folks.
Hyperlocal news reporting, along with compact video gear is changing the face of the video journalist newscape. Add to this the ability to produce documentary projects using the solo vj paradigm with the web as it’s final display platform – where everything needed to produce compelling content can be fit into a backpack (more on this in an upcoming post), this is where the operator will dictate the quality of content being produced.
One can only hope that net neutrality is locked in for good to prevent corporations from controlling who has access to information.
Cliff Etzel is a regional award winning photojournalist from the Pacific Northwest who has been a visual content creator since 15 years of age. In his past still work, he specialized in photo documentary and slice of life stories. Since discovering the new paradigm of self contained video journalism, he now focuses his energies in the Solo VJ paradigm with an emphasis on people-based stories, environmental, social justice, travel and documentary work through his company, bluprojekt
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