Today, I stumbled upon a worthwhile interview with Brian Storm, the president of MediaStorm, in Nieman Reports. MediaStorm creates multimedia documentaries for news organizations like National Geographic, MSNBC, Slate and Reuters. They take on serious social issues like the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, families facing economic hardship in the rural Midwest, and [...]
Recently, I’ve encountered some convincing arguments that we may need an entirely new language for understanding and practicing journalism. A friend recommended I read a book called The Little Book of Contemplative Photography by Howard Zehr, a professor and documentary photographer who contends that the words and metaphors of photography – “taking a picture,” “shooting,” [...]
I was recently on a panel with Jena Janovy, an editor at ESPN.com, who made a compelling case for long-form sports journalism on the Web. Janovy said that visitors to the Outside the Lines section often spend seven minutes or more on a single online feature. One of the most successful video documentaries on the [...]
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