Thank you for your comments. I forgot to tell you, I studied journalism in Colombia, I've been doing some (very little) independent projects, writing and research, and almost nothing fot TV...but when I did (1 time)to cover guerrilla warfare was with panasonic AG-456.
In Colombia,- and maybe a lot of 3 world countries-the correspondents outside big cities work with this equipment, only the main cities work the same technology that US with NLE too...
So because I know I need a lot of english yet before applying to some paper or so,with total confidence,I was thinking to get into the market as a shooter,I'm thinking in doing some courses in sony training, the ENG camera sounds good among the others, even an AVID Media Composer in FMC Miami.
one problem I'm facing right now is (besides good english) is that in Colombia I studied 3 years college, it was a "techincal-professional in journalism", and the tv stations are looking for 'bachelor's degree' 4 years...wich I don't have, so I've been looking for salaries and it seems that getting in college once again, transfering credits will put me to study 3 years more (does it worth it?)...and I see the salaries for photographers and editors are almost the same and in some cases are superior to reporter's, kind of disapponitment, isn't?
I'd like to cover wars, big wars, big events, or discovery channel, frontline, sort of...
anyway thank you for reading my thoughts...