Get paid to travel around U.S. and blog

What a fun writing gig: Southwest Airlines is looking for someone to travel around the country for the next year and blog about it. The winner will be provided with airfare and hotel accommodations for each assignment along with a laptop, video camera and editing software. A minimum of four vlogs, or video blogs, will be produced. Applications are being accepted this month. To apply, you must submit a one-minute video.

Video journalism awards contest

The 4th International Video Journalism Awards is seeking entries for non-fiction videos from video journalists.

"The awards try to cover all known fields of video journalism: films from TV stations and publishing companies and productions from an independent background are awarded with a total of 12,000 of prize money going to the separated categories 'independent and online' and 'TV production,'" according to an e-mail from Albert Beckmann of vjawards.com

The deadline for entering films is Oct. 15, 2008. The awards are produced by vjawards.com and the host is ZDF German Television in Mainz.