BJ Koubaroulis was writing about high school sports for The Washington Post when he saw “writing on the wall� about the newspaper industry and decided to make a change. He put down his pen — at least for a little bit — and picked up a video camera.
“I got my first camera off of craigslist. Fifty bucks,� said Koubaroulis, who ended up doing video pieces on high school sports for The Post. Eventually, he founded Synthesis Multimedia Productions, a private video production and digital strategy company, in Northern Virginia 4-1/2 years ago.
“In this digital day and age, when all of your resources are online to help you start a company and to take those steps. The business model, and starting the business, was not actually as hard,� he said.
Koubaroulis talked to It’s All Journalism producers Michael O’Connell and Julia O’Donoghue about starting his own business and his new venture, DMVSTREAM.com, which streams high school sports.
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