I'm a photographer and videographer for The Common Language Project - a media non-profit devoted to humane international coverage.
Every now and then I get really excited or frustrated about something I encounter while reporting, and start hacking away at the keyboard. More often then not the end result betrays me as a photographer, not a writer, but I can't seem to stop trying.
I'm currently reporting in East Africa on water scarcity issues.
2009 promises to be another tough year for the journalism industry, and it looks like it's our turn to take a beating here in Seattle. The imminent closure of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the city's oldest and second largest newspaper was announced last week, just a few months after the second round of major staff cutbacks in 2008 went down at our other major newspaper, the Seattle Times. With the country sliding into a massive recession, two major foreign wars raging, federal investigators uncovering a series of juicy political scandals, and our first black President entering office, a...
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