Video journalism or videojournalism is a form of journalism, where the journalist shoots, edits and often presents their own video material.
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As a VJ I produce portraits, documentaries and reports on sports, culture and society. Working with my own VJ equipment, I shoot for TV magazines, news programmes and online platforms — researching, filming, interviewing
and editing my own stories.
Life of a VJ l Tokyo 2026
Resistance through no sex: The 4B movement in South Korea
The 4B movement in South Korea represents one of the most radical rejections of patriarchy to date: no sex, no dating, no marriage, no children.
DW Documentary l Southkorea l 2025
GOOD GAME – Japanese esports players shooting down stereotypes
Naoya Kitamura and Shunya Hatakeyama are passionate about esports. The disabled players use customized equipment to take part in tournaments.
DW Sports l Japan l 2023
WHO is the fairest Football Nation?
Co-author: Hannah Janz
Edit: David Jacobi
Sound Mix: Edwin Diele
Odd job man: Henning Hesse
DW Sports l Japan l 2023
Breaking the Holy Ring — women take on Sumo
Traditionally, Sumo is exclusively practiced by men. In Grand – Sumo, women are not even allowed to step inside the dohyo, or holy ring. Twenty-year-old Rio Hasegawa lives and practices Sumo in Tokyo. One day she wants to become World Champion.
DW Sports l Japan l 2024
Álvaro – Routing for German soccer from Bolivia
DW Sports l Bolivia l 2014
Käptn Peng & die Tentakel von Delphi feat. Mana Izumi
Goethe Institute l Tokyo l 2012
How did I become a VJ?
I had just graduated from the Institute of Music ad Media in Düsseldorf when a friend who worked for Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, told me that the sports department was hosting a series of short clips called “Kick it like”. Because I was visiting the Middle East at the time, I decided to go for a walk in the neighboord and not return to my accommodation until I found someone playing football. Thirty minutes later, I met Sharif and his friends – and the rest is history!
DW Sports l Ramallah l 2014
I produced a little “Kick it like” series, whenever I would travel and with every clip I became more efficient, confident with my equipment and in approaching strangers on the streets.
In 2014, I had just completed a year of exchange studies at Tama Art University in Tokyo, I started working as a freelance video producer for the Goethe Institut in Tokyo. At that time, everyone was talking about the upcoming Football World Cup. More than 700 million people in 194 countries were expected to watch the final game between Germany and Argentina. I must have proven my ability to film well enough, because DW approached me with this question:
Would I like to film for us how Japan watches the World Cup Final for them?
For Kick off!, reporters around the world set out to capture how this one event was experienced in very different places: in living rooms in Africa, in pubs in Europe, on the beaches in New Zealand and Rio, at a kiosk in Berlin, inside a taxi in Moscow, and among tons of fish at Tokyo’s legendary morning fish market – the former Tsukiji market.
My first real VJ assignment – at 4 a.m. on a Monday morning, local time!
The footage had to be edited into a rough cut and uploaded a.s.a.p., so that the two film directors at the Berlin headquarters could compile the different angles of the event into one film. 48 hours later, the film was ready to air, giving fans of the German team a chance to relive their victory and keep the dream alive.
A film by Henning Hesse and Niels Eixler
Edit: Christian Förster and Andreas Hyronimus
Tokyo (production & videography): Caroline Bergmann
