My cyber mentor David Dunkley-Gyimah as posted on his blog about two topics I write about about here on solovj.com – online content distribution and the business of solo video journalism.

I have been publicly ridiculed for my personal perspective of corporate news media – and the fallacy of objectivity in the news died decades ago.  This was also discussed at length on Michael Rosenblum’s blog and needless to say, it sparked an interesting dialog.

David is a maverick, he pushes the envlope in areas I can’t even wrap my head around – but the bottom line is, he has a better sense of what’s going on in this solo video journalist profession than many of the so called “broadcast tv journalists”.

Having said that – David has posted about an online broadcasting resource called Livestation.

This is a major resource for those who want to take back the ability to report stories, news, features on their terms – not the corporate media’s gate keepers.

The second part of this equation is the detractors go to argument against solo vj’ism and online content distribution -  that online content has no means of generating revenue the way mainstream broadcast can.

Finding revenue to support such ventures is a challenge but it seems that this is being ironed out as well according Mark Glaser over at PBS’s Media Shift.

With these two recent findings, those who are like minded in working as content creators in the minimalist Zen like paradigm of solo vj’ism can now look at niche programming and develop one’s own unique branding, vision, what have you of what it means to broadcast those topics that are relevant to you and those who would also find the content important enough to view.

Add to this the ability of vj’s to create their own version of local news broadcasts and the flood gates are opened up – no longer is the public fed filtered news based upon corporate news media agendas – all news will have its unique viewpoint – and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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