Category: journalism
FT Seasonal Appeal: Malnutrition in the Central African Republic
Every year the Financial Times supports a charity, and this year Action Against Hunger was the chosen organisation. I traveled to the Central African Republic with cameraman Steve Ager, photographer Charlie Bibby and the FT’s West Africa correspondent Tom Burgis to make the following three films.
The foreign correspondent of the future
There will always be a need for “ground truth” and “bearing witness”, but existing foreign correspondents and the organisations they work for will have to let go of some outdated features of the job and embrace others to survive in the future.
Hong Kong’s property extremes cage the poor
Hong Kong’s property extremes show that many of being left out of the city’s boom. Without the development of low-income jobs as part of it’s rapid economic development, thousands will continue to live in dismal conditions. Produced by Deborah Bonello and Justine Lau for the Financial Times. Filmed and edited by Deborah Bonello. Watch the [...]
Foreign correspondents are not redundant, says Sambrook
Although the report acknowledges that journalism is going through a lot of changes and media owners have had to cut foreign bureaus, Sambrook is optimistic.
Covering Wars and Making it Pay: WarIsBoring.com
David Axe, a freelance war correspondent and founder and editor of WarIsBoring.com, is one of them. He was kind enough to switch on his video camera and answer some of my questions about his work – how he does it, and how he funds it.
Winners of the 2010 Rory Peck Awards; Mexican honoured
India’s street children, the Taliban and this year’s protests in Thailand were the focus of the winning films at last night’s Rory Peck Awards, which recognize the achievements of freelance filmmakers working around the world. Crucially, the Martin Adler award (which honours a freelancer who has played an exceptional role in the telling of a [...]
International reporting no longer monopolised by the British press
That window of opportunity Moore mentions for newspapers to make advances in this area is already closing as they cease to be the sole journalistic authorities out there. I’m not sure that’s such a bad thing.
Rory Peck Awards approach
For those of you out there looking for inspiration in a journalistic world plagued by budget cuts and negativity (unnecessarily, if you ask me), you could do worse then buy yourself a ticket to the Rory Peck Awards next month. I was delighted to see that some (full disclosure) friends of mine – filmmakers Jennifer [...]
Does absence make the heart grow fonder?
Or have you all forgotten about me by now? I’ve committed the cardinal sin one should never commit if you want people to read your blog: not blogging. So sorry for those very few out there who might care (hi, Ma!), I can only say it’s been a crazy few months. But I’m here now. [...]
Jon Snow on the future of journalism: It’s all out there to be grasped, and we will do it
You’ve got to have people like ourselves telling each other what’s going on, and you can’t just depend on Twitter to do that. We have a future – we’re the best, the very best
Another piece of good news for indy VJs
The lowering of the barriers to entry on both ends of the scale can only be a good thing for new talent wanting to come into the digital film-making and news production world, be it TV, online video or multimedia storytelling.
The making of the iPhone movie
For those of you video geeks out there who admire the focus of this post about a great movie recorded and edited with the new iPhone, the ‘behind the scenes’ is now live.
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.
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.
‘Hold the front page, I haven’t got a clue’
Thanks to friend and multimedia colleague Adam Westbrook to this response to a thoroughly annoying article in this weekend’s Sunday Times by Ed Caesar, which says that new journalism graduates might as well give up if they don’t have ‘luck, flair, an alternative source of income, endless patience, an optimistic disposition, sharp elbows and a [...]
Video: Filmmakers document consequences of U.S. immigration raid
Back in May 2008, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials rounded up 389 undocumented workers in the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The raid was the largest in U.S history. Two weeks later, filmmakers Jennifer Szymaszek and Greg Brosnan started filming “In the Shadow of the Raid.”
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