video journalist

See also: videojournalist

English

Noun

video journalist (plural video journalists)

1. A journalist who handles all aspects of production on their own, acting as reporter, cameraman and editor.
   • 2008, Deborah Wilson, in Chapman & Kinsey (Eds.), Broadcast Journalism: A Critical Introduction, Taylor & Francis 2008, page 22:

     BBC Video Journalist (VJ) Trainer Warwick Wise says: With video journalism, you are working harder, there's no getting away from that, but you're also seeing genuine benefits.

   • 2011 January 25, The Guardian:

     The video journalist Mohamed Abdelfattah has posted some distressing tweets – using the Twitter for Blackberry^[sic] app – from the scene of the protests, where he says he has been arrested.

Translations

type of journalist

• French: journaliste reporter d’images m
• Irish: físiriseoir m