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  • 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…

  • Detroit: the film

    For the last two years, I’ve been considering a documentary film about community attempts to resurrect Detroit.  It first occurred to me when interviewing a food security specialist in New Orleans for my Rising From Ruins film, who said that her post-Katrina city was doing great work, but Detroit was the nation’s leader in this…

  • 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,…

  • How to connect in the digital age

    My “lunch box talk” at the University of Washington on May 12th.