Video journalism or videojournalism is a form of
journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (pro ...
, where the journalist shoots, edits and often presents his or her own video material.
Background
A predecessor to video journalism first appeared in the 1960s in the USA, when reporters had to write and shoot their own stories.
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/ref> Michael Rosenblum compared the introduction of video cameras
A video camera is an optical instrument that captures videos (as opposed to a movie camera, which records images on film). Video cameras were initially developed for the television industry but have since become widely used for a variety of other ...
to the invention of the portable camera in the 1930s: film spools of plastic made photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...
independent from heavy plates and tripods, and digital video technology liberates TV from heavy electronic news gathering
Electronic news-gathering (ENG) or electronic journalism (EJ) is usage of electronic video and audio technologies by reporters to gather and present news instead of using film cameras. The term was coined during the rise of videotape techno ...
(ENG) equipment, artificial light and television studio
A television studio, also called a television production studio, is an installation room in which video productions take place, either for the production of live television and its recording onto video tape or other media such as SSDs, or for ...
s in much the same manner. Video journalism makes it possible for videographer
Videography is the process of capturing moving images on electronic media (e.g., videotape, direct to disk recording, or solid state storage) and even streaming media. The term includes methods of video production and post-production. It ...
s to document any event while it is still occurring.[ Michael Rosenblum: ''Vom Zen des Videojournalismus'', in: Andre Zalbertus/ Rosenblum, Michael: ''Videojournalismus''. Uni Edition, 2003, , S. 17-75]
The concept of the Videojournalist using a small camera was invented by Michael Rosenblum in 1988. The first TV station in the world to use only VJs was TV Bergen, in Bergen, Norway. Rosenblum later built VJ-only TV stations for TV 3 Norway, TV3 Sweden and TV3 Denmark. Around the same time, CITY-TV
CITY-DT (channel 57) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Citytv network. It is owned and operated by network parent Rogers Sports & Media alongside Omni Television outlets CFMT-DT (chan ...
in Toronto also began to adapt the ideas for their ''CityPulse
''CityNews'' (corporately styled City''News'') is the title of news and current affairs programming on Rogers Sports & Media's Citytv network in Canada. The newscast division was founded on September 28, 1975 as ''CityPulse'' as a standalone loc ...
'' newscast and other shows produced at the station, becoming a staple; similar principles were adopted by Citytv head Moses Znaimer
Moses Znaimer (; born 1942) is a Tajik-born Canadian media executive of jewish descent. He is the co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia ...
at other CHUM television stations and networks.
In the early 1990s, the news channel New York 1 was the first TV station in the US to hire only video journalists and have them trained by Rosenblum. In the mid-1990s, the first German
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private stations followed the example of NY1, and in 1994, the regional channel Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...
became the first public broadcasting
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station to follow suit and hire a number of video journalists.
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started to switch to video journalism in all its regional offices.
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