Beyond the News: Recent Episodes
Danny Bull
coronavirus #georgefloyd #covid19 Xinyan Yu, is a Chinese Journalist with the BBC, she's originally from Wuhan, China, so she has a very unique perspective seeing the virus spread from Wuhan to the rest of China and then to the US. As she Chinese journalist she talks about some of the discrimination that has come to her and other Asians / Asian Americans as Coronavirus reached the United States.
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georgefloydprotests #georgefloyd #protests Full unedited interview with Alexis Johnson on how she was barred from covering the US Protest. Alexis is a Journalists with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and after a tweet of hers went viral she says was unable to get story pitches through her editors, barring her from covering the protest. This is her story and voice in a full unedited interview. We talk about the controversial tweet, what it's like being a young black journalist in the newsroom, her background with two parents in law enforcement, advice to young black and minority journalists and the power of mentors. I hope you enjoy this discussion.
Bing Guan
GeorgeFloydprotests #justiceforgeorgefloyd #civilunrest #protests #defundthepolice #abolishthepolice #minneapolis #losangeles #covid #coronavirus #virus #covid19 #GeorgeFloyd
Bing Guan talks about covering the George Floyd Protests in Los Angeles as a photojournalist.
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Timecode:
0:27 - Introduction
0:50 - Peak craziness
1:07 - tensions have calmed down.
1:57 - difference of US and Hong Kong protest.
2:56 - high emphasis on remaining peaceful
4:27 - Abolish the Police department and Defund the police.
4:57 - Police budget compared to the CDC budget
5:27 - covering a protest during COVID-19
9:27 - hit by pepper ball.
9:55 - they are targeting journalists
9:55 - what gear do you have? Masks for covid and masks for tear gas
10:20 - full face gas masks
10:27 - P100 filters
11:27 - Initiative for Black Press Freedom Fund
12:00 - Huge need for PPE - Personal Protection Equipment
13:00 - Advice for new journalists
13:40 - Bias and perspective to news stories.
13:57 - Build your network
viralvideos #tictoc #socialmedia Today we talk to Oliver Wright who has a large following on youtube and tic toc and creates videos about editing, product reviews and tech.
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Taimoor Sobhan is a documentary filmmaker working for human rights organization, #fortifyrights. He is based in bangkok and shares his knowledge about filmmaking, going from film to digital, and making films form life in refugee camps to Muay Thai fights in Bangkok's prison system.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - teaser
0:38 - Introduction
1:10 - start in to film making from documentaries, features films, 16mm to digital
3:56 - Log and capture and proper logging techniques
6:09 - Journey into human rights film making
7:45 - Working in Bangladesh
8:30 - Cox’s Bazaar, Kutupalong refugee camp and Rohingya in 2008
10:00 - Seeing Rohingya refugee camps change over 10 years from 2008 to 2017 and onward
11:15 - Seeing cramped refugee camps
13:40 - The enormity of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar Bangladesh
16:00 - Human rights videos
18:00 - Calling this Genocide
18:54 - Whats it like going to Cox’s Bazaar and into the Refugee camps
20:00 - Filming in Crisis 23:00 - The still shoot and motion picture.
23:16 - The language of motion pictures for human rights documentation
24:10 - Rohingya refugees documenting their exodus on their cell phones.
26:13 - Looking at images of crisis and pain over and over as a film editor
27:10 - Covering Trauma
27:50 - Getting human rights films on New York Times OpDocs
31:42 - Re-traumatizing subjects in crisis
32:34 - how to protect a person in crisis
32:58 - cut throat industry in times of crisis
33:33 - fast paced news vs. documentaries in covering crisis
33:48 - asking deeper crisis
34:14 - documentary their genocide on their cellphones
35:03 - prejudice we carry to Rohingya refugee camps
35:33 - social media in refugee camps
35:46 - Giving cellphones and instagram to Rohingya refugees to tell their story.
37:33 - How refugee camps work, and the power of social media from the inside
38:42 - Internet shutdown in Refugee camps
41:02 - what makes a good shot, what makes a good photo or video?
41:43 - The motion picture camera as an empathy machine.
42:23 - tracking shots in film
42:36 - the importance of good sound design
43:21 - not rehashing images and perpetuating stereotypes
44:20 - Netflix and the rebirth of documentary film
45:34 - Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka inspiring a generation of film makers.
47:28 - The birth of Cinema and role of filming in society
48:31 - Dune 2020
49:03 - The democratization of Film making
49:50 - The DSLR revolution
50:11 - Photography and videographer are two different art forms 53:16 - Documentary film making is now mass entertainment 53:20 - The best thing about film making 55:25 - The Muay Thai Fight for freedom in Khlong Phrem Prison. 58:23 - One piece of advice
Matt has an extensive media background from lighting major Hollywood movies such as Spider man 2, Working at the associated Press where he was based in Egypt as their multimedia and interactive producer for the Middle East. He was founder and CEO of Vignette Interactive where he led a team of to film projects in more than 30 countries and with clients such as National Geographic, Unicef among others. He now runs his own media company under his name: Matt Ford Media based in Barcelona, Spain.
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Jonathan Head is the SE ASIA Correspondant for BBC NEWS.
He is an award winning Journalist with awards including an MBE and the Peabody Award for the plight of the Rohingya.
With over 30 years at the BBC, he has worked at the Head office in London and across the many bureaus, from Indonesia, to Tokyo, to Bangkok, to Singapore, to Istanbul and now back in Bangkok.
He has also served as President of the Foreign correspondents club of Thailand and continues to play a pivotal role there.
It is my distinct privilege to welcome Jonathan whom I’ve been learning and working along side for the last 5 years, Jonathan welcome to Beyond the news.
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Show timecode directory:
0:00 - Show Teaser
0:20 - Introducing Jonathan Head
1:10 - COVID19 effects on Journalism
1:49 - COVID19 in Bangkok and the low number of cases
3:30 - The economic impact in Thailand from the virus
8:00 - SARS vs COVID19
11:11 - The adventure of Journalism
11:40 - Being posted in Indonesia - 1996 - 1999
13:00 - Fall of Suharto - head chopping
14:00 - East Timor
15:30 - Brutal conflict in Indonesia
16:42 - Seeing a severed head and processing trauma
18:14 - Do you need to go to school to be a Journalist
21:39 - Fairness in Journalism
23:50 - Working in Libya
30:31 - The pace of different bureaus
32:45 - Preparing for natural disasters
33:23 - The changes in journalism and the future of Journalism
39:12 - Is there an agenda in Main Stream Media / Fake news
40:40 - The world is not black and white, it is shades of Grey
41:50 - The Bosnian civil war
42:25 - The Rwandan Genocide
44:00 - The Iraq war and 9/11
46:25 - How will COVID19 effect the world
49:15 - The Lockdown and anti-lockdown protest
54:23 - The Best thing about Journalism
56:00 - One piece of advice for journalist
Raul is a Spanish Journalist and filmmaker. He has won a long list of awards for his work including cameraman of the year from the Royal Television Society and the coveted Miguel Gil Award. El Mundo has called him, The Best Camera in the World. He’s been a pioneer for producing captivating online news and documentaries at a time when news was shifting more and more from TV to online, while working at the Associated Press, Channel 4 and now as a film maker and journalist for a host of clients.
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Altaf Qadri talks about working as a photojournalist for the Associated Press, from living and starting his career covering the conflicts in Kashmir to Libya, and now the coronavirus.
Altaf has won numerous awards and alcolades including winning the world press photo twice, and multiple Photographer of the Year International award among many others. Altaf works for the associated Press based in Delhi and works in the region and beyond. Follow Altaf's work here: https://www.altafqadri.com/ https://www.instagram.com/altafqadri
Adryel Talamantes is a photojournalist originally from the United States now based in Bangkok, Thailand. His photography has been published by outlets including The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Le Monde, Nikkei Asian Review, VICE, The Diplomat, PRI/Global Post, Speigel Online, Bild, War Is Boring, and Remote Lands among others. The focus of his work centers on news, travel, and human interests stories and has covered stories in Hong Kong, Iraq, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand.
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