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Published on: 05/24/17 1:00 PM
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Roehampton Uni Symposium
Interesting meeting today with around 50 lecturers from the Media Culture and Language Department who were re-examining their advice to students about careers. 4 of us from the Media industry…Published on: 04/28/17 11:35 AM
Videojournalism talk to the students at the Metropolitan University
Gave a talk about Videojournalism this week to the students at the Metropolitan University,London. they're doing BA Hons in Journalism and Fashion Marketing and Journalism. We talked about the need…Published on: 04/3/17 3:20 PM
Dangers of working as a VJ reporting conflicts
From my Videojournalism book: chapter 2 on Pioneer VJs https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XNN7N57/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490003585&sr=1-1&keywords=videojournalism Being a VJ in the field reporting in conflict zones- "you have to question why you're doing it and nothing compares…Published on: 03/28/17 5:31 PM
Early citizen journalists
The first widespread use of the Hi-8 camera in features as opposed to news came in 1993 with the BBC programme called Video Nation. It showed “video diaries” shot by…Published on: 03/21/17 2:42 PM
Helping local school for BBC School Report
St Philip Howard School in Barnham Sussex prepared for another year of joining the BBC School Report Day. It meant putting together a radio programme and they were good at…Published on: 03/21/17 2:24 PM
Details of my new VJ book
Out on Amazon now for just £7.99. My book is an updated version of the first edition. The only book to detail the birth of videojournalism, the social and political…Published on: 03/21/17 2:02 PM
My new book published on Videojournalism!
Published on: 11/25/16 4:11 PM
Interview with Jim Grice, London Live News Editor on using VJs
The strengths of a VJ operation are that we can gather much more material than in a traditional way (i.e. using crews)- send VJs out from event to event all…Published on: 09/10/16 4:54 PM