Using YouTube to Support Aspiring Journalists (with a marketing plug)

If you're not aware of it already, check out YouTube Project:Report an interesting project with the Pulitzer Center that's funded by Sony and Intel. According to the site:

Through Project: Report, the Pulitzer Center is giving aspiring journalists the opportunity to work on a journalism project of global importance. The Center is awarding a $10,000 grant to each of the five winners to cover travel expenses, and will provide support in the development and distribution of their work.

There are lots of corporate projects using YouTube and short films/videos, including Volvo for Life which provides funding to support the people/projects featured in the videos.

Rose Mapendo, the subject of the powerful documentary Pushing the Elephant (which was supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures, a client) and the spokesperson for the non-profit Mapendo International, was profiled by VFL. Here's that video:

Recent Film PR Projects

Client: Chicken & Egg Pictures

MY PERESTROIKA
Filmmaker: Robin Hessman
Winner of the Silverdocs Special Jury Mention - 2010



THE OATH
Filmmaker: Laura Poitras



ORGASM INC.
Filmmaker: Liz Canner



WO AI NI MOMMY (I LOVE YOU MOMMY)
Winner of the Silverdocs Jury Award - Best US Feature - 2010
Filmmaker: Stephanie Wang-Breal

KTLA Special Report: Orgasm Inc. The Hunt for Female Viagra

 

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-orgasm-inc-sweeps,0,5870917.story

CNN: Black farmers still waiting for justice

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/19/black.farmers/index.html

Client News: NBC 12 Richmond reports "Black farmers continue to wait for justice"

HBO Documentary: Making the Crooked Straight (April 14 at 8:00 pm on HBO2)

Kathleen Christensen, Ph.D. on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss new book "Workplace Flexibility" this morning

Kathleen Christensen, Ph.D., the co-editor of the new book Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce (coming April 2010, Cornell University Press), was on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss the book and the important issue that is getting attention in Washington and around the nation. Christensen's co-editor is Barbara Schneider, Ph.D.

You can watch the video below. The book is available for pre-orders from Cornell Press and Amazon.com.