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  • The beginning of the end: shrimpers in the Gulf

    The horrible news from the Gulf following the BP oil spill has me thinking about the shrimpers I met there a couple of years ago for my last film.  Which is why I posted this short video clip from Rising from Ruins in tribute to them.  Derek Ditcharo’s company has been featured in some of…

  • Storytelling in the digital age

    My contribution to Harvard University’s Nieman Reports special issue “The Digital Landscape: What’s Next for News?”  Here’s an excerpt, or go here for the full text. Storytelling in the Digital Age: Finding the Sweet Spot ‘Old metrics for credibility and trust no longer guide us, nor does trust emanate exclusively from the power of a…

  • Write a story with this data

    Last week I hung out at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism as I saw some of the groundbreaking collaborations its students are engaged in: primarily between computer science and journalism. I get the sense that Medill is preparing for a reality of lean-and-mean newsrooms, with fewer paid staffers, allocating the grunt journalism to alternative…

  • Reclaimed?