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.

Posts Tagged ‘Travis Fox’

The Next Big Step for Online Video is Offline

By Cliff Etzel • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Content Distribution

Over at Poynter Institute Online, Al Tompkins had the opportunity to interview Travis Fox of The Washingtonpost.com.
I’ve admired the quality of work Travis is producing these days and have been following his work for the past few months.
One question Al asked falls into line with one of the philosophies I have been speaking on since [...]



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.



The Ups and Downs of Shooting as a Solo VJ

By Cliff Etzel • May 14th, 2008 • Category: VJ Training

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 [...]