A hotly debated issue has arisen over on Dan Chung’s DSLR News Shooter Blog that I believe bears witness to yet another coming change in the new paradigm of solo video journalism. The issue is when does one draw the line with over stylized footage  - ie; heavy post production manipulation of the final content [...]

In my never ending search for quality video content, I discovered this 1st Place Documentary Video winner in the NPPA Best Of Photojournalism contest for 2010 entitled “Leveling Appalachia – The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining” Although not completely done in the solovj paradigm, the credits do show that the vast majority of the content was [...]

I’ve been voraciously consuming Adam Westbrook’s blog postings lately and this came in over the weekend and thought I would take liberties and apply it to the solovj paradigm. Adam raises a very important question in this video:  

With all the fallout that occurred in 2009 for journalism, I’ve been trying to figure out what trends, ideas, etc. I needed to look at to stay agile and find new avenues of not only creative video journalism projects, but to maintain some form of revenue stream coming in.

A lecture by Tom Kennedy Former National Geographic Director of Photography and Managing Editor of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive speaks about his and the visual journalism profession’s transition to the digital age.