Small town life or village life? Tohomina Akter washes herself at the neighborhood well in Char Baria, Barisal, Bangladesh, on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World This might be old to some of you but it’s new to me: last April A View From the Cave, Carol Jean...
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Eric Maierson of MediaStorm recently wrote an encouraging blog post about finishing what you start. (If you don’t know MediaStorm, it’s a multimedia agency that produces video stories for a lot of NGOs. This moving story for the International Center for Research Women is a good one to watch.) Eric writes: …the last few...
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Rarely do organizations share their stories of projects gone wrong. So I was intrigued by this New York Times blog post‘s mention of Admitting Failure, a website the collects stories about development failures (hat tip to my friend Ellen Lee for telling me about the NYT post). There are only a handful of stories...
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Good luck with your applications! Director of Emergency Media and Communications at Save the Children in Washington, D.C., or Westport, CT The Director will plan and execute successful communications and marketing strategies primarily in support of our Priority Result 1 programs (Emergencies and Child Protection), working closely with the Disaster and Humanitarian Response (DHR)...
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Hi there, dear readers. How’ve you been? So sorry about the long delay between posts. Life got busy and something had to give, so it was blogging. But I’m back now! Here are some stories I’ve been reading and programs I’ve been experimenting with, all in the name of becoming a better storyteller: USAID...
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Here are 10 job opportunities for everyone from editors to storytellers to people with web skills. I’m noticing that more job descriptions request applicants with photo and video skills. I take that as a good sign that organizations recognize the need for strong visuals. Good luck job hunting! ———- Online Content Coordinator at Pathfinder...
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You’re sent to the field to take pictures and get quotes from project participants. The story runs on your organization’s blog and then you never again see those assets — the photographs, quotes, soundbites and video you produced. All that work, just for one blog post? No. I’m a big believer in ensuring story...
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Editing is hard work, so we’re taking cues on the topic from the NGO world and beyond. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is best known as the author of “Random Family,” a 10-year documentation of life in the ghetto. That in itself is the start of an extraordinary editing fact (how do you cut 10 years...
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Nyla Rodgers founded Mama Hope after traveling to Kenya to meet a young man her late mom had sponsored. Since then, Nyla has built California-based Mama Hope into an NGO that partners with local organizations across Africa, raising funds for health, education, agriculture and water projects identified by local communities. Mama Hope recently received...
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Being an aid worker is not easy, and that comes across more than clearly in these Médecins Sans Frontieres blog posts by Trish Newport. She’s a Canadian nurse in Chad on her 5th MSF mission. From the challenges of treating malnutrition in remote villages to the challenge of accidentally locking herself in an outhouse,...
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