TV newsrooms that are replacing reporter-photographer teams with solo video journalists might benefit from the experience of stations that have always had them. News8 Austin, the cable news channel in Texas, has used VJs ever since it launched 10 years ago. News director Kevin Benz told Poynter’s Jill Geisler that managers need different strategies to make “one man band” news coverage successful:
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