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This editorial on How Not to do Newspaper Video comes from The Digital Journalist . Its editorial staff credentials are highly impressive. It’s a site worth bookmarking - definitely.

Dirck Halstead is the Editor and Publisher of The Digital Journalist. At 17, he became LIFE Magazine’s youngest combat photographer covering the Guatemalan Civil War, then worked for UPI for over 15 years. For 29 years he was White House reporter for Time Magazine. In 1992 he played an instrumental part in the formation of Video News International (VNI), which started what is now the Platypus movement, allowing still photojournalists to cross the barrier between print and television. He is now a senior fellow in photojournalism at the Center For American History at the University of Texas. He has won the NPPA Picture of the Year award twice, the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the fall of Saigon, and two Eisies. In 2002 he received the lifetime achievment award from the White House News Photographers Assn., and in 2004 he was honored with the Joseph A. Sprague Award for lifetime achievement and service to photojournalism, considered the highest honor in the industry. In October of 2007 he was awarded the Missouri Honor Medal by the University of Missouri for “Distinguished Service to Journalism”. Halstead is on the board of directors for the Air Force 1 Museum.