$13,500 prize offered for best news piece by a VJ

Steve Safran March 23rd, 2007

Michael Rosenblum points us to the announcement of the 2007 edition of the Concentra Award, a 10,000 Euro (About $13,500 at today’s exchange rate) prize for the best news piece by a videojournalist. Although based out of Belgium, the award is not limited to Europeans this year. It is also not for amateurs, but rather is for those who work at a broadcast station. (The entry has to show the anchor’s intro and outro.) From the rules:

Each entry has to be made by a video journalist that personally was responsible for the research of the item. He or she must have operated the camera and taken care of the editing personally. The voice over can be from someone else. Each news item has to be (made with) digital video and (preferably) be edited at a PC.

The Concentra Award is funded by a private company, Concentra Media, which owns Belgian newspapers and televison stations that fully operate with VJs. Rosenbloom and his team built four hyperlocal stations for Concentra around the VJ model, and he is the head of the USA jury.