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Washington Post reporter learns to do video

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Eric Seals Aug. 13, 2010, 8:06 a.m. permalink

Interesting read and thoughts by a reporter who is learning to do video for the Washington Post


http://blog.washingtonpost.com/story-lab/2010/08/over_the_last_several_weeks.html

"My transition from writer to video journalist has not been comfortable. I constantly fumbled with the tripod -- right in front of my subject -- which was about as embarrassing as getting caught with one's fly open. And I spent so many hours late into the evening with the video editing software Final Cut Express that I wondered whether I was even doing journalism anymore, or computer science. One huge lesson learned: Never say "videographer."

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