The landscape of news driven content is changing – and the fallout is reverberating across the news gathering industry in ways many are finding unsettling. The antiquated narrow world view of TV video journalism is witnessing a wave of shooters coming into the fold that for many is a threat to a way of doing [...]

I realized that I have used this term throughout my blog postings without giving any sort of a definition to this term. Working as a multimedia journalist is a unique concept – one that is constantly being redefined as this point in time, but to be a “Jack Of All Trades, Master Of Them All” [...]

A recent IM6 (Integrated Multimedia 6 ways) presentation by my colleague and friend, David Dunkley-Gymiah prompted me to think about where my fellow newspaper photo-j shooters are going with their transition to shooting video. And how they may be missing a unique opportunity to be true to themselves, to their craft and to their viewers.

The recent portfolio project I completed on the volunteer freediver at the Oregon Coast Aquarium has me some what confused and to a certain extent, frustrated and discouraged as to which version of the story is so called “correct”. When I completed the first version, some critiques said I should have added an audio narration [...]

The Knight Citizen News Network has an excellent piece on the foundational principles of journalism to help citizen reporters master the fundamentals of the craft in a networked age. An excellent read that can be translated over to the Solo VJ paradigm as well as those doing the nitty gritty reporting with the written (or [...]