If you're in Beijing over the next few years and
do film journalism, get in touch!
Not exact matches
(Indeed, ESPNW is
doing some of the most interesting and important work in sports
journalism right now: look no further than its recent profile of Christy Mack, an adult
film star who was brutally assaulted by her boyfriend, a mixed martial arts fighter.)
Rather than going to
film school I
did a PhD at a university where I could also dabble in student
journalism.
I
do outreach to new clients by using my
journalism degree for a new purpose: writing copy and
filming short, interesting, and fresh yoga fitness and lifestyle videos and offering them to media outlets, including Yoga Journal, Glamour, Self, The Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, ELLE, Runner's World, and Martha Stewart's Living.
It's a
film about newspapers — one in particular, The Washington Post, and how real
journalism used to be
done.
As a portrait of modern
journalism, though, it leaves quite a lot to be desired; this is the kind of
film that has characters trade grandiose talking points about the ethics of reporting, but can't be bothered to show its reporter hero — still recovering from the damage factual inaccuracies
did to his career — using a recording device during interviews.
I didn't go to
film school and I don't have a degree in
journalism or broadcasting.
This is in part because when arts
journalism is the topic of discussion today, it's often being discussed in terms of who is
doing it (too many cis white knuckle - draggers like yours truly), or if indeed criticism — for our purposes,
film criticism — matters anymore at all.
It's been a good few months for
films about
journalism, what with Spotlight winning the Oscar for Best Picture and Truth
doing such a decent job of detailing the controversial decline and fall of veteran American news anchor Dan Rather.
This is not a foundation for the hardest hitting
journalism, but then again, the
film does not make out Seattle Magazine to be the most informative periodical either.
Both Loren and Jerod started down similar paths as personal bloggers and dreamers (one with ambitions for
film, the other sports
journalism)... and then found themselves taking different paths for career ambitions, only to end up
doing exactly what they had originally intended.