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Tag Archives: Zach Wise

What we’re watching: in which we ponder people with scars, the making of sex dolls, a birth in Sierra Leone and the soul of Athens

There has been some debate of late over just how “cinematic” documentary multimedia should be. (See the comments on this Khalid Mohtaseb post on the DSLR News Shooter blog, brought to our attention by Josh Benton at Nieman Lab, and also filmmaker Travis Fox’s response on the same site.) Today, however, we’re taking a look at videos [...]

Frontline and the International Center of Photography look at news narratives for a digital era

How will digital opportunities change the way we tell stories? Earlier this month in New York City, a roundtable of journalists from major media outlets and community-oriented news organizations met to consider new narrative possibilities. Funded by Shell, the afternoon symposium was hosted by the International Center of Photography and co-sponsored by Frontline.
The discussion wasn’t [...]