Michael Rosenblum and his Concentra-backed DNA conference put their money where their mouths are.A hefty 10,000 Euros prize for best video journalist of the year and hardware for best breaking news vj. 4 of the 8 finalists work for newspapers and the big winner was Alexandra Garcia of the Washington Post for her feature on the "shocking quality of dental care" in a rural part of Virginia. Roads jammed with families desperate for dental care at a free clinic. A toddler with potentially fatal abcesses in his mouth. Breaking news award to filmaker Subina Shrestha for her exclusive story for Al Jazeera English on the victims of the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar – see a segment above.. Unforgettable images of forgotten bloated bloddies floating down the Irawaddy river. Rosenblum thinks that the solution to all journalism is unleashing vj’s trained and given the "grammar" of good storytelling. He wants to mothball newsrooms and cull non-vj journalists. He’s got no answer for how to replace traditional root and branch newsgathering. But these vj winners and finalists are impressive, and Rosenblum rightly can claim credit for championing and rewarding them.

Ready for this? Canadian documentary maker Rob Spence  who lost his eye in a shooting accident when he was 10 now waiting for his prototype eye camera to be implanted. Second day keynote conversation at the Digital News Association conference in Brussels. Pretty surrealistic discussion about ethical issues for a journalist whose eye is a working camera. Read all about it on his eyeborgproject website.