War photographer Danfung Dennis wrote a guest blog post to POLIS Media covering the topic of skills in the new media market. Danfung presently shoots stills and video with a Canon 5D Mk II and is embedded with US forces in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan.

As he puts it his work with the new media market means he will “shoot HD video and stills, edit and produce a pieces on my macbook, encode for broadcast, web, iphone and video podcast platforms, transmit by satellite to my website and update my RSS feed, twitter, facebook, vimeo and blog platforms with regular video dispatches from the front line.”

Wow! So the big question is, according to Danfung, “how can I monetize my content and actually make a living with this networked solo videojournalism model when internet content is expected to be free, no matter how good or original the content is?”