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Video and print journalists combine to cut through storms of digital garbage

Major newspapers are recruiting documentary makers aka video journalists to make short-form pieces that add the punch of screen storytelling to the power of print. Is it working?

13 Mar 2018

Ros Walker

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Image: Still from The Fight from United Notion Films.

In an era when investigative journalism is being downsized and news outlets prefer their activism in soundbites, the Australian International Documentary Conference hosted a session examining the emerging synergy between print and video. It is much more than static print hosting moving pictures.

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Ros Walker

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Ros Walker is an independent producer who has run the MA program at the VCA for producers, and is an experienced industry agency manager. She has a keen interest in research, and evolving new models for producing in a low budget environment.