I got the camera out last night after it rained. The whole “moment” thing is inspired by Damon Winter’s work on “A Year at War” for the New York Times
I got the camera out last night after it rained. The whole “moment” thing is inspired by Damon Winter’s work on “A Year at War” for the New York Times
This is my first official day in Antigua, Guatemala. I’m staying with a host family and on Monday, I start a month of Spanish lessons at a local school.
I did a little exploring today and hiked up into the hills to Cerro de la Cruz, a little park overlooking the city.
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Columbia University communications just put out a nice little write-up about Brave Old World, the News21 project I was part of over the summer.
It features a video of mine and some quotes from my editors as well as yours truly. Read it here.
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This summer, I was lucky to get the News21 fellowship at Columbia. I worked with 10 of my peers under a great crew of editors.
We produced several multimedia packages on Aging in America. It was a great experience that even afforded me the opportunity to travel to Montana to shoot some video.
Yesterday, the site went live. You can view it here.
The fellowship was a great opportunity, and several of the pieces I produced were picked up by major media outlets.
This was the piece I shot in Montana with Bob and Sue Cushman, a lovely couple who live independently in Condon, Montana. It was part of a larger series of mini-documentaries we produced that examined the different ways elderly people live in America. The series was picked up by The New York Times and can be viewed here.
This was a piece I edited from footage we collected from interviews with patients with dementia. It was picked up by the Washington Post and can be viewed here.
I also assisted on several other packages, including a print piece on widowhood and loss, a multimedia package on the world’s oldest man and a cartoon about the future of universal design in an aging society.
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This is Clare.
Clare, among other things, is my sister.
She’s also a polo player for Cornell University. This summer, I got to watch her play a practice “chucker” at Meadowview Farm here in Michigan.
It’s quite a game.