Archive for June, 2010
In praise of iPhone film “Apple of my Eye”
My feeling is that although it might get more people in general shooting more video, this is even better news for us as visual storytellers – which yes, still is a skill – by bringing down the costs and bulk of the equipment we might sometimes use to report.
Build your own online editorial brand
If you’re in the least bit entrepreneurial and want to be known for your work rather than just the media you work for, then the web is huge opportunity for you. Yes, you may have to work for free to build up a volume of content, but it’s a much better way to spend your time than sitting in a newspaper office as an ‘intern’ waiting for someone to throw you a bone.
How to make freelance foreign reporting pay…
In the room were half a dozen journalists, pretty much all of whom were interested in being able to travel to different parts of the world and uncover human rights abuses and report on development issues – and get paid to do it.
FT.com: Letters to the Leaders
In the build up to 2010′s general election, the FT sent me to the regions to interview business people about what they wanted to see from an incoming government.
Hostile regions training can induce a useful paranoia
I’m in a paranoid frame of mind after spending a week in Wales. I had to fight the temptation to get the TV director who kindly gave me a lift back to London to check his glove compartment for hidden weapons and to produce his credentials and references, not to mention a valid driving license, [...]
Talking heads online are death?
When I started in online video, I thought that the correspondent model was old-fashioned and patronizing to the viewer. And I do find that using the traditional VJ model gives one, as a journalist, more of a sense of documenting than producing.
Innovative Interactivity features MexicoReporter.com project
Tracy Boyer, founder of the excellent Innovative Interactivity (II) blog got in touch with me to about my foreign reporting exploits, and I answered her questions for a piece she’s published today on the site. It might be of interest for those of you out there planning to do anything along these lines, and it’s [...]
Journalism that questions the powers alive and well, Amnesty shows
There was some great work on show, and it was encouraging to see that despite the doom and gloom attitude being exuded by many these days around our profession, there are plenty of journos who are just getting on with doing what we should be doing – questioning the powers.
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