“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.

Michael Rosenblum, the ever present wave maker in the profession of shooting video, has once again proven his point around why the move to the solo video journalist paradigm is inevitable – even more so with this recent announcement from broadcast giant ABC.

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.  [...]

Michael Rosenblum posted this on his blog.  Pretty straight forward.
Detractors deride his solo vj training as being too little.  His training techniques produces quality that is supposedly less than professional – according to the detractors.

For all apparent purposes, web video should be working – especially for those venues that are in a prime position to provide longer form type video stories – Mainstream magazines.
Print magazines have always been the go to for longer in depth print articles, yet these very same entities don’t know what to do with video [...]