VJ links

June 7, 2007 by Dave Earley
Filed under Broadcast, Journalists, Media, Online, Videos

This is an email I recently sent to my internship coordinator at UQ’s School of Journalism and Communication, after he asked me if I had any VJ sites I could recommend. I spent some time looking for a few links for him and thought they might also be useful to others.

Email:
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To: Journalist-in-residence, UQ School of Journalism and Communication
From: Dave Earley

I haven’t kept up with video journalism (VJ) sites much, mainly because it usually requires high-speed internet when videos are involved, and I’m on free student dialup! I haven’t really found any VJ ‘forums’ either.

By the way, an example of a good university news site is Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times.

Hope the following is helpful, and not link overload.

The only site I could recommend off the top of my head is Michael Rosenblum – but other than discuss theory, he doesn’t go into a lot of technicalities on his blog about how to do VJ. So I’ve put him in ‘interesting reading’ links. He runs training worldwide in VJ (including for the BBC), but perhaps the best start would be this page:

http://theconcentra.org/en/links/
It looks like it has some good links that could be helpful

After a bit of searching, you might also find these useful. I haven’t had time to look into them in-depth (as I said, dialup is not conducive to fast content viewing online):

http://www.onqco.com/
http://www.current.tv/make/training?section=editing
The CurrentTV guide is fairly basic, but provides some good information – I’ve looked at it before. Actually if you follow that link, at the bottom of the section there is a ‘Learn More’ button where you’ll find more links.

http://www.mrdot.co.uk/videojournalism_today.html

Interesting reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_journalism
http://rosenblumtv.com/index.shtml
http://www.integratedmedia.org/nav.cfm?cat=14&subcat=123&subsub=0
http://rosenblumtv.wordpress.com/
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/video_journalists/
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/video/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/video.php?page=1
http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/videoblogging/p/journlismvlog.htm