“We never knew”.

(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play) It's one of those moments you don't......

Audio slideshow: from killer to legal campaigner.

Adam Westbrook has a great blog on all things to do with journalism and new media. He's also a contributing editor of duckrabbitblog.  Good to see him not just commenting on new media......

Just another set of limb chopped Africans by a famous photographer.

The headline on the BBC website reads: In Pictures: Rebuilding Wrecked Lives After Sierra Leone's civil war Sounds interesting? Then I flicked to the set and......

An interesting point of view about the NGOization of African imagery fed to America.

has been posted by Paul Melcher on the Black Star Rising blog. You can read the full post here. duckrabbit doesn't entirely agree with him. I think its actually a bit of a......

Black Boys On Mopeds.

I read a comment on Lightstalkers by a photojournalist who said that growing up in London twenty years ago he wasn't aware of any racism. It's typical of a revisionist version of the world......

Dan Chung, we don’t believe in flame throwers.

Yesterday duckrabbit pointed out the success of a rather brilliant advertisement for the military might of the Chinese Communist party by Dan Chung. Chung has been in touch to let duckrabbit know that as......

Amnesty International – Human Rights In The Frame.

Amnesty International is an organisation that duckrabbit fully supports. One of the best ways of achieving a more equal world is to stop human rights abuses and that's exactly what Amnesty sets out......

Behind the Veil.

This week long mini series by the Globe and Mail is causing quite the stir among multimedia journalists this week. Tracy Boyer's eagle eye spotted it on the weekend, and it's......

Some of the Amercian NGO’s are creating amazing multimedia.

Two of the best are The Open Society Institute and Human Rights Watch. Why are they so good?  Because they are creating seriously good journalism for all the right reasons. They want to educate......

Stan Banos (Reciprocity Failure Blog) reminds us that.

Ibrahim Jassam- Imprisoned Journalist More than half a year......

“Jack wasn’t going to get killed.”.

Paul Kerley has produced a powerful audio slideshow about  a father who lost his son in Afghanistan.  It works on so many levels. First off it shows that you don't need great pictures for......

Good audio is like a bad dog.

Many great photographers make really bad audio slideshows because they treat audio as afterthought, or they try to do a voiceover without having any presentation skills. They might as well not bother. Actually I'd go further......

Charities, journalism and PR.

Adam Westbrook was one of a number of bloggers who followed up on duckrabbit's post on MSF's new cinema advert with a much wider analysis of how charities communicate: 'At the heart of......

.

...

Just read that AP photographer Emilio Morenatti has been badly injured:.

'Emilio Morenatti, a 40-year-old photographer for The Associated Press whose pictures from the Middle East have been likened to artwork, was badly wounded Tuesday in southern Afghanistan when the vehicle in which he......

Where it’s at, Joseph Rodriguez (part two).

Recently I wrote a post on RESOLVE about the art of the soliloquy in multimedia. The 'to be or not to be' moment, when a character in a play steps out of the......

Joseph Rodriguez – Where it’s at (part 1).

This week we're kicking off a new series ' Where it's at'. This is where the finest work we sing about on duckrabbit......

Multimedia -Sexual Warfare, Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

When duckrabbit lived in Ethiopia the radio programmes that I managed regularly told stories of women and children who had......