I’m studying video production as part of a graduate degree program at George Mason University, and this blog is a project of the Fall 2011 Instructional Technology course EDIT772.

Online video journalism is spreading across newsrooms, including ones that traditionally dealt solely with print media. Because of declining costs and rapidly improving capabilities of cameras and editing systems, many reporters are becoming “backpack journalists” capable of reporting for multiple publishing platforms. This blog aims to serve as a guide to the top video-journalism training resources and tell the the stories of video practitioners with a first-hand view of how digital technologies are transforming the visual media world.

The coolest thing about the Web is its interactivity. So feel free to join in the conversation.

— Sam Meddis

PS: This blog is not affiliated with anyone or anything else. For better or worse, whatever I say here is merely my own opinion.