Sunday, April 20, 2008

Labor of Love: www.KCRA.com/kenya

Check it out…
It’s been a labor of love for the past month or so and I'd like to share it with you.
www.KCRA.com/kenya

In an effort to get a local audience to think outside of their zip code, I found a local hook (Micah, a photojournalist & friend) to an international story (ethnic cleansing in Kenya). The trick… creating a broadcast story out of still photos. You can watch the story as it aired on KCRA at the bottom of the web page linked above.

However, broadcast stories are brief and rarely get to the meat of an issue this large… thus the interactive web site. In addition to what aired on KCRA, I used excerpts from Micah’s powerful interview along with his photos to tell a complete story online (finally using that Online Journalism degree!)

I hope the story enlightens you, inspires you or simply makes you think.

Enjoy!
-Julie

(Disclaimer: I am responsible for the content and design... but had help from our amazing web guru Aaron Slavik with the code & flash :)

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