video journalist

plural video journalists

1. A journalist who handles all aspects of production on their own, acting as a reporter, cameraman and editor.

   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.

   2008, Deborah Wilson, in Chapman & Kinsey (Eds.), Broadcast Journalism: A Critical Introduction, Taylor & Francis 2008, page 22

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   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.

   2011 January 25, The Guardian