Kaity the Cartoon Blogger
This post and the 11 others preceding it are embeds of the final News21 stories from my 2009 summer fellowship. These videos are being both hosted on Vimeo and on the project’s website.
I also want to make sure I share credit on these 11 videos with my partner, Andrew Burton, whose work ethic and multimedia skills helped make our team the most prolific and – in my opinion- successful.
In Lincoln City, Oregon, the coolest kid in school isn’t the quarterback or a cheerleader. It’s an artist. Students and teachers alike from Taft High School routinely visit Kaity Curry’s Web site to see if they made it into her “doodle diary.” Her cartoons capture moments in her life that she wants to remember. She posts her favorites to her blog: Frankensteinbeck. She explains: “I like Frankenstein, Steinbeck… oh and the musician, Beck.”
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This is a video from youngandthewireless.com, a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.
Last Text Message
We asked high school students at Taft High School what their last text message was while taking their portraits. We edited their responses into a video montage.
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This is a video from youngandthewireless.com, a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.
One Text Ahead of the Cops | Sioux County, IA
For generations, most every teenager in Sioux County, Iowa, has cruised Highway 75 on Sunday nights. They gather to hook up, show off, and hang out. The cops can still remember cruising as kids themselves, but now they’re enforcers, cracking down at the urging of shop owners angry with the litter and crowds. The cruisers have adapted. When they’re shooed along, they use text messages to reorganize and regroup at new locations on the fly.
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This is a video from youngandthewireless.com a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.
Yesterday’s Mayor, Today’s Neighbor
Eighteen new computers are in the hands of Wally Bryan’s friends in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Actually, these friends are neighbors, too. Five years ago, Wally used to be their mayor. But he gave it up to help them – and to live where they live. He’s grown his charity out of an apartment and into two homes, with two more to come.
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This is a video from youngandthewireless.com, a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.
Games of War
The earliest video games by the Atari Company laid down a rule: No player could ever harm a “human” character. Things have changed. Halo and Call of Duty simulate war and killing, and they sell millions of copies a month. The U.S. Army has adopted many video game-style technologies to train soldiers in battlefield procedures and rules of engagement. Soldiers at Fort Campbell in Hopkinsville, Ky., told us that while these simulators look like games they’ve played, it’s very different for them now.
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This is a video from youngandthewireless.com a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.
Kiera
As a young child, Kiera Haun suffered physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse in her biological parents’ house. For more than five years, she was moved among seven foster homes; she finally landed with the Hauns two years ago.
The family quickly ran into trouble when Kiera began attracting the attention of men much older than her on the Internet. Her new parents took action, limiting her online life to teach her how to be responsible. Today, Kiera says she will do anything to stay in their house, and she says she understands why they had to take drastic action.
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This is a video from youngandthewireless.com, a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.
Medical Justice
We’ve all heard of doctor-patient confidentiality. The legal and ethical rule by which the doctor cant divulge the private information of you, the patient. In Central New York, one local writer and a number of local doctors are starting to grapple with the question of whether that confidentiality goes both ways. What rights do you have to speak publicly about your doctors, and if you do, what should you choose to talk about?
Produced for CONNECT. See the full episode here.
CAPS Training Video
Communication, Appearance, and Problem Solving (CAPS) video, produced on Freelance for Syracuse University Student Centers and Programming Services.
This Twilight Zone spoof was produced for the Fall training program at SCPS. Each fall building managers, information desk attendants, and events technical personnel are run through the paces for 2 intensive days. This video was created to be they keystone of the training by the SCPS Employee Advisory Council.
Democrats go Door to Door
With 17 days remaining before the 2008 elections, the Citizen Action Network of Central New York went door to door about the issue that matters to them: healthcare. The group of Democrats started at the local library with a rally and keynote speech by then-congressional-candidate Dan Maffei. (Maffei was later elected.) After the rally, the group went door to door and found their neighbors open and agreeable to their political points.
These stories were part of team coverage in both the Syracuse University NCC newscast and on the “Newshouse” website. They were balanced by other journalists’ coverage of the republican campaigns.
There are two versions of this story to demonstrate the difference between a standard reporter package that would air on television, and the multimedia version that is better suited to the internet user.
I call the second version a “nat [natural] package.” (more…)
Live Interview: Caffeine Addiction
From CONNECT, Spring 2008. This interview compliments a piece by one of our reporters about the addictive nature of caffeine.
A segment no longer part of CONNECT, the live interview was frequently our biggest frustration, but sometimes a surprising success. This interview was one of the latter.
