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VJ Kiran Khalid wins Journalism Award
Congratulations Kiran! VJ Movement contributor and CNN producer Kiran Khalid receives the American Immigration Lawyers Association Media Leadership Award today. The award is in recognition of her work documenting the plight of immigrant communities in the United States. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Video Journalism, VJM News
Tagged AILA award, award, kiran khalid, media, pakistan, video journalism
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Top 5 Tips for Video Journalism Grants
You can have the best ideas and be the best in your field, but you still won’t get the job done if you’re missing one of the basic fundamentals of every journalistic endeavor – cash. The cost that goes into … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Video Journalism
Tagged documentary, funding, grants, video journalism
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Russia shuts down newspaper for ‘supporting’ opposition
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s more or less the predicament of the publishers of Krestyanin, one of Russia’s leading quality regional newspapers located in Rostov-on-Don. The newspaper’s printing press has been indefinitely closed down by local … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Press Freedom, Video Journalism
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Top 5 Upcoming Journalism Awards
The media industry may be in crisis and journalism jobs hard to come by, but thankfully there are still a large number of generous do-gooders who have set aside some of their cash for the best video journalism talent and … Continue reading
Posted in Video Journalism
Tagged awards, international media coverage, journalism, journalism award, video journalism
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Kids & Cartoonists Event
We all know that good cartoons make excellent material for schoolteachers, especially those that teach History and Languages. Our colleagues over at Cartoon Movement decided to take that notion one step further by bringing schoolkids and cartoonists together to discuss … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning, Cartooning News, VJM News
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New Project: What happened to Iraq’s Refugees?
“When’s the last time you talked about the Iraq War?” journalist Sarah Stuteville asks in her report on Iraq’s refugees, entitled The Quiet American. The question is a poignant one. For although many of us outside the Middle East have … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Video Journalism
Tagged cartoonists, iraq, refugees, unhcr, war
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How Not to Report the News
One of the things I like about video journalism is the fact that at its best, it’s a clean break from television news. Al Jazeera’s Frames is the kind of project that tells visual stories in a way you just … Continue reading
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News Games Brainstormers meet in Minneapolis
By Simon Broersma* VJ Movement is always looking for new ways of practicing journalism. We started off with Video Journalism. Then the Cartoonists entered the network. Since then we have also branched into comics and even a hilarious animation. For … Continue reading
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The Elusive Nature of News
By Jorine Nelissen* Last Monday was just another day at the office, until our editor-in-chief Thomas Loudon received an email. One of his contacts in Libya asked if he could upload footage that he had received from a citizen in … Continue reading
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Six Video Interview Tips
by Jennifer Crandall* This blog post is about an element of video journalism that carries visual weight in subtle but powerful ways. The interview. Oftentimes we video journalists concentrate on how to make our pieces as visually engaging and appealing … Continue reading
Posted in Video Journalism
Tagged howto, interview, tips, video journalism, video journalism and education
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