Solo Video Journalist

Musings and advocacy of the Solo Video Journalist Paradigm. Emphasis on web video journalism, developing compact shooting equipment, editing, techniques, creative vision while remaining true to the journalism perspective.

Archives for the ‘Video Journalism’ Category

The Challenge Of Solo Video Journalism – Redux

By Cliff Etzel • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Video Journalism

Yes – it has been awhile.  Too long To be honest.
With the economy having made many a casualty (including yours truly) of Wall Street Corporate Greed, those of us who have the passion to continue when all seems lost, have had much occur in our field of endeavor.



The Challenge Of Solo Video Journalism

By Cliff Etzel • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Video Journalism

It’s apparent to the few who come here that content has been pretty stale for the past couple of months.
With having to pay the bills as a web designer on top of marketing my video work, I’ve not had much time to blog on solo vj’ism.  Having said that, I’ve been left with a nagging [...]



Appointment TV Is Dying

By Cliff Etzel • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Video Journalism

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.  [...]



A Shift In Perspective of the Solo VJ Paradigm

By Cliff Etzel • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Video Journalism

Recently I’ve begun revisiting the Solo VJ paradigm and asking exactly what it is from my point of view.
I’ve come to realize that the Solo VJ paradigm is more than just about web video journalism – at least from my perspective.



Q&A with Travis Fox, video journalist for washingtonpost.com

By Cliff Etzel • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Latest Posting, Video Journalism

I just came across an interview with Travis Fox on the USC Annenberg School for Communication.