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  • Let the story tell itself

    So we arrived in Detroit with a rough idea for a film: using a Journalism That Matters gathering as the “peg” to draw a parallel between a profession in crisis, a city in crisis — and what people at the community level are doing to alleviate those seeming insurmountable challenges.  I hadn’t done any intensive…

  • Loaded for Bear

    We’re clearly in the middle of a content production arms race. Even as Hollywood champions new technologies to differentiate itself from the YouTube crowd, amateurs quickly raise their own standards, adopting new platforms and cameras to try and keep up. So what strategies should independent storytellers adopt?

  • If you’re doing exceptional work

    I’m presently listening to Brian Storm, my former MSNBC colleague and now multimedia storytelling visionary through his NYC-based production company, Media Storm.  We’re both presenting at the Visual Journalism Bootcamp on Whidbey Island in Washington. He does powerful work — we just watched an excerpt from Unintended Consequences — the children born of rape after…

  • Influence and persuasion in a YouTube world

    A call today from a local TV talk show producer looking to book me as a tech “expert”, alerted me to YouTube’s 5th birthday today (here’s my segment).  I wish I had known about the video streaming site’s public beta test back in May 2005 — at that same time, I was struggling to compress,…