Editing The New York Times Planet Fat project When we started talking to the New York Times enterprise video team about editing a project they were producing, we knew the footage we were going to be handed would be a) beautiful and b) thoughtfully captured. Catherine here, I want to spend a second digging into …
Drawing Attention to Research Through Story 9 million people in the world die every year from pollution-related causes. But how often do you hear about pollution as a global health threat? Not very often, I imagine. In the U.S., most of us don’t see heaps of trash everywhere we look, or make a living by …
We both grew up around farms – Catherine was raised on a small farm in the outskirts of Charlottesville, VA, and Elena grew up in rural Iowa. But not until this project did we truly understand the challenges and hardships that family farmers have faced and continue to face in the U.S. Through the stories of …
Homeplace Under Fire is the story of American farm advocates and their thirty-year fight to keep family farmers on the land. The Farm Crisis of the 1980s drove hundreds of thousands of family farmers into foreclosure. Out of that crisis came a group of courageous farm advocates, many of them women, who stood up …
Joanne Doroshow of the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School wrote an article in the Huffington Post that featured the Texas tort reform video we produced for the Center for American Progress. “Ebola-infected Thomas Eric Duncan was misdiagnosed in an emergency room and sent home in Texas, a state where patient safety …
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We spent the summer learning all about Texas Tort Reform and working with the great people of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress to design a story that would show the human impact of an issue that can sometimes get lost in legalese and political debate. You can read more about the issue …
We just got back from the 2014 Media that Matters conference at the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University. I came away with pages of notes, and was particularly inspired by the Design for Impact session. Caty Borum Chatoo (the fantastic media impact researcher, documentary producer and professor) puts it like this, …
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Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFis) are an important piece of infrastructure for building strong local economies. CDFIs function as a different kind of lending organization. Unlike traditional banks, they operate with a mission to serve low-income people and build wealth in underserved communities. By combining funding from government, foundations, and individual donors, CDFIs make it …
The Virginia Mentoring Partnership has awarded the Virginia Mentoring Awards to two outstanding mentors and two outstanding mentoring organizations. These are their stories. Bruce Lalonde has been mentoring Harry Dews and Langston Scott for more than four years through the Team Up mentoring program. Alicia Meyer is a mentor and volunteer at Blackwell Elementary School through …
