Category: journalism
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.”
Death in El Salvador
The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding.
‘I’ve never been afraid’: Director, recently slain, talks about filming El Salvador’s gangs
Photographer and filmmaker Christian Poveda was shot dead in El Salvador Sept. 2, 2009. He spent more than 16 months, every day, with the mara gangs of San Salvador to make the 2009 documentary “La Vida Loca.” This is footage from an interview conducted by the Los Angeles Times’ Deborah Bonello with Poveda a few [...]
Christian Poveda, “la Vida Loca” director, killed in El Salvador
Reports have surfaced that French photographer and director Christian Poveda has been shot and killed in El Salvador, possibly by the gangs that his recently released documentary “La Vida Loca (the Crazy Life)” focused on. Reuters reports: Suspected Salvadorean gang members killed French filmmaker Christian Poveda, whose 2008 film “La Vida Loca” crudely depicts the [...]
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma spotlights Mexico
The Dart Center, a Colombia University project for journalists who cover violence, got in touch with me after I published a video report on survival training for journalists in Mexico earlier this year.
Intersections of Mexico City and Los Angeles
For those of you who follow other bloggers here in Mexico City, or are a regular visitor to my links, you will know Daniel Hernandez, creator of Intersections, and an author and journalist living here in Mexico City. Daniel is currently in Los Angeles where he is going to be speaking at MOCA as part [...]
Journalists reporting, and surviving, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists reports on journalists working in the northern border town of Ciudad Juarez.
Frontline discussion: Narco wars Mexico
Broadcast live on Ustream, June 24th 2009 Moderator: Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News Panel:Ed Vulliamy, Guardian and Observer journalist and writer Alex Tweddle
More jump ship from The News
Only four of the original 14 people rehired by Grupo Mac to man the News, Mexico City’s struggling English-language newspaper, remain at the title.
Latest editor at the News laid off
The most recently appointed editor at the English language newspaper here in Mexico City the News has left the title after just a week in the job.
Mexico English-language daily sold; staff cut by two thirds
Mexico’s only national English-language daily newspaper The News, based here in Mexico City, was bought by a Mexican media company and laid off dozens of staffers over the weekend.
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