The New York Times

Telling the Truth: One frame at a Time

WRITERS: C.C. Clark, Sabine Lloyd and Kyle Austin
REPORTERS: Lily Baldwin, Kylar Flynn, Brandon Lopez, Simone Harper, Angie Gonzalez, Jacqui Martin, Lauren McKechnie, Claire McKechnie, Samantha Michaels, Josh Santos, Anna Silverman, Campbell Slavin and Lilli Wanninger (FROM: Community School, Drew, Redwood High, Marin Academy, San Rafael High, St. Ignatius Preparatory, Tamalpais High and University High Schools)

It’s easy to spot somebody who’s in love with their job. When they start to talk about whatever line of business it is they’re in, a spark appears in their eye and they enjoy telling you about the amazing things they get to do every day. When we met Andrew Blackwell, the supervising editor of the Op-Docs section of the New York Times and author of the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl, it was clear from the get-go that he’s one of those people. Throughout our interview at the Times Tower in Midtown Manhattan, he shared stories about his job in a breathless, almost zealous manner, like he wanted us to know everything about what he does so that we, too, would come to appreciate the beauty and relevance of (in his case) the creation and editing of acclaimed online documentaries. By the end of the interview, we did.

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Vice - Defying Norms

Image of FastForward reporters onsite at VICE headquarters

FastForward speaks with three on staff that help make it happen

WRITERS/REPORTERS: Kylar Flynn, Brandon Lopez, Kyle Austin, Simone Harper, Angie Gonzalez, Jacqui Martin, Lauren McKechnie, Claire McKechnie, Samantha Michaels, Josh Santos, Anna Silverman and Lilli Wanninger

Within the halls of Brooklyn, NY’s media juggernaut VICE, content which defies the norms of journalism and visual entertainment is being made every day around the clock. News, entertainment, technology, food, you name it; if it’s something you’re interested in, odds are VICE has a video covering it. Since its founding in 1994, the company has cemented itself as a beacon of compelling storytelling thanks to its knack for taking risks and chasing the stories most others don’t dare try. For one morning, we were given an inside look at this process, what propels VICE to report on what they do, and what has made them the un-matched news corporation among young adults, millennials, and beyond. As we explored the New York HQ’s vast offices, we were greeted by our interviewees, three amazing women that help keep one of the world’s most popular news sources running. We sat down in a sunny, glass exposed room to hear about their unique experiences, as well as what it takes to become a VICE reporter. Dory Carr-Harris, Michelle Leung, and Ankita Rai now faced us one on one, each woman helping put a human face on what can (from the outside) seem like pure smoke and mirrors in terms of just how much content their company generates on a regular basis.

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BuzzFeed 2018

FastForward Interviews Producer Julia Furlan

REPORTERS: Kylar Flynn, Brandon Lopez, Kyle Austin, Simone Harper, Angie Gonzalez, Jacqui Martin, Lauren McKechnie, Claire McKechnie, Samantha Michaels, Josh Santos, Anna Silverman, Lilli Wanninger

If there’s one word to describe life in New York City, it’s fast.The town that never sleeps also never misses a beat, taxis honking and subways rumbling beneath the pavement day and night. Julia Furlan, like most other people who work in media among its sprawling skyscrapers, never goes a day without a rush of motion and activity. NYC is bustling with people, each person just one among millions of different intersecting lives. In this age of social media and constant information, the internet resembles the bustle of a major city more and more closely: every day, torrents of information, messages, videos, and images are sent back and forth across timelines and news feeds that infinitely post and re-post what millions of different people are saying, witnessing, or doing. For conventional media (i.e. television and print), telling the stories of even just the millions walking NYC’s streets can be extremely difficult. After all, there are only so many hours a day that a TV network can fill, and only so much time to tell each story they cover. In hindsight it seems inevitable that, as our lives changed and became more interconnected through technology, the media we absorb would change too.

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