Visual Editors concluded their first web video journalism workshops held May 5-9, 2008 and needless to say, the results and comments from the attendees speaks greatly about the out side the box thinking that is the new paradigm of solo video journalism.

Ever the outspoken Solo Video Journalism detractor, Stewart Pittman aka “Lenslinger“, has put his spin over on NewsVideographer about the difficulties that many shooters are beginning to experience working as solo video journalists.
He and I don’t see eye to eye on much and even though I respect the amount of time he has invested as [...]

Michael Rosenblum has posted what I feel is a crucial commentary that hasn’t been discussed to any real extent - that of the differences between shooting VJ content for the web as opposed to shooting for traditional broadcast television.
There is a difference and I think it needs to be expounded upon as to what I [...]

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 business [...]

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 typed) [...]