I have a real issue with this whole mind set of DSLR’s/Shallow DOF perspective that has been flooding this profession for the past several months.

SoloVJ.com is an advocacy platform for the SoloVJ/Backpack Journalist Paradigm and as such, I’m constantly looking for new information on this brave new world of video journalism that ascribes to less is more. Bruce Jones posted this video on his blog about the Backpack Journalism Project Bill Gentile is teaching at American University.   I [...]

As a contrast to my posting regarding the CineVJ debate that has ensued, I thought I would post what an established solovj is capable of producing abiding by the current production standards for video journalism today. Since the news of  Travis Fox being let go from the Washington Post late last year, I had wondered [...]

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:  

“Why I’m glad I made the transition from ABC News off-air producer to New York Times videojournalist.” That’s the introductory statement NYTimes VJ Erik Olsen made in an article posted on Digital Journalist – and one I feel speaks loudly above the cacophony of the detractors of self contained shooter/producers.