Indiewire Features Excerpt from

"VIDEOJOURNALISM: MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING"

by Kenneth Kobré:

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"If you want to get into videojournalism, read this book.

 If you want to be a TV reporter, news video editor or shooter, read this book.

If you are a video blogger or aspire to be one, read this book."

- Internet Video Magazine

New York, NY - September 25, 2012 - From the author of bestselling textbook "Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach" comes new title from Kenneth Kobré, "Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling."  An excerpt by contributor and editorial director of Kobreguide.com, Jerry Lazar is currently being featured on Indiewire.com. Check out the excerpt here: http://bit.ly/indiewireKobre.

The original "Photojournalism" book has been the academic standard for the last 30 years. This new textbook is sure to reach the same status in the new emerging field of videojournalism. The title is based on extensive interviews with -- and contributions from -- top practitioners in the field.  Purchase "VideoJournalism" on Amazon or Barnes & Noble today!

Kobré set out to write his new title because of the changing nature of journalism today. Kobré explains, "Newspapers, magazines, blogs and TV stations are posting more short videos on their Websites -- thanks to the availability and low cost of video equipment and relative ease of shooting and editing -- but, with rare exceptions, the quality of those video stories is subpar."

At long last, a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated textbook has arrived to help train a new generation of journalism students and professionals to produce compelling nonfiction visual narratives.

Internet Video Magazine raves: "If you want to get into videojournalism, read this book. If you want to be a TV reporter, news video editor or shooter, read this book. If you are a video blogger or aspire to be one, read this book. (It) is also for those who wish to make documentaries, commercials, or any other type of multimedia where it is important to plan, construct and create a story using video.... It is very well laid out, with lots of diagrams and colorful images.

Campfire Journalism blog selected "Videojournalism" as its favorite multimedia textbook, and noted: "Unlike many text-heavy textbooks, this book is visual and uses stunning photos, graphics and illustrations. And unlike some textbooks that charge extra for online resources or require that you adopt the book for access, this one has an open Website with dozens of multimedia examples and resources."

Videojournalism is a new field that has grown out of traditional print photojournalism, slideshows that combine sound and pictures, public radio, documentary filmmaking and the best of television news features. This amalgam of traditions has emerged to serve the Internet's voracious appetite for video stories. Kobré's "Videojournalism" is written for the new breed of "backpack" journalists. The solo videojournalist must find a riveting story; gain access to charismatic characters who can tell their own tales; shoot candid clips; expertly interview the players; record clear, clean sound; write a script with pizzazz; and, finally, edit the material into a piece worthy of five minutes of a viewer's attention. Videojournalism addresses all of these challenges, and more - never losing sight of the main point: telling a great story.

This new book is for anyone learning how to master the art and craft of telling real short-form stories with words, sound and pictures for the Web or television. The opening chapters cover the foundations of multimedia storytelling, and the book progresses to the techniques required to shoot professional video, record high quality sound and even distribute and market the resulting product.

Above all, "Videojournalism" doesn't lose sight of the fundamental and enduring principals of JOURNALISM -- reporting, interviewing, writing, editing, and storytelling -- that will serve students well not only in producing quality videojournalism, but also throughout their careers, despite the rapidly changing technology scene.

To find out more on Videojournalism by Kenneth Kobré, please visit:

http://kobreguide.com/

www.facebook.com/KobreGuide

www.facebook.com/Videojournalism

About the Author:

Ken Kobré is a professor of photojournalism and videojournalism at San Francisco State University. His most recent feature-length documentary, "Deadline Every Second: On Assignment With 12 Associated Press Photojournalists," has screened at prestigious universities and institutions throughout the U.S. and Europe, and airs on PBS stations this year from New York (WNET) to San Francisco (KQED) (DeadlineEverySecond.com). His other bestselling textbook, "Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach" (Focal Press), is in its 6th revised edition, and has been the industry standard for 30 years. Kobré is also the inventor of the acclaimed Lightscoop®, a patented camera accessory that redirects the light from a DSLR's pop-up flash to a ceiling or wall to create professional-looking bounced light (Lightscoop.com).



"VIDEOJOURNALISM" -- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS:

Stan Heist - executive producer, Maryland Newsline , and adjunct professor, University of Maryland

Kathy Kieliszewski - Deputy Director of Photo and Video, Detroit Free Press

Jerry Lazar - editorial director, KobreGuide.com

Regina McCombs - faculty for Multimedia and Mobile, The Poynter Institute

Josh Meltzer - photojournalist-in-residence at Western Kentucky University, formerly with the Roanoke Times

Mary Thorsby - independent business writer, Thorsby and Associates

David Weintraub - instructor, Visual Communications Sequence, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina

Donald R. Winslow - editor, News Photographer magazine

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