Practising Videojournalism

Teaching broadcast journalism, video journalism and new media was easy compared to writing a book about the subject. The problem is that there has never been a book written on the history of how it all began – so I wanted to fill that gap.

The other thing was that new media and online journalism has to be the fastest moving medium ever – hardly had I written about one takeover than another happened. Hardly had I mentioned the fact that newspapers might soon be investing online when The Daily Telegraph went and did it.

Still, this book I think helps us British catch up on the trends in online journalism and also registers the need NOW for more video training and thinking about online journalism. NOT that the book is for UK students and journalists and those readers interested in video only- but that we have yet to establish a debate on the level that blogs have done in the US. We have not taken to online journalism like ducks to water – whereas the Americans have. But we have to be there or be square, or rather left way behind.