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......

shifting sands – desertification in China.

Sean Gallagher won Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey's first Emerging Photographer Fund in 2008, and used the prize to travel to......

The Snakebox Oddessy by Paul Close (where it’s at).

Bang. Bang. Bang. WOW. This blew me away. I mean this REALLY BLEW ME AWAY. For more info look here and here. If you only look at one thing on the web this week go......

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......

“Hidden Hunger”.

Tracy Boyer's Innovative Interactivity blog has been the place to go for seeing the latest most exciting pieces of visual storytelling for some time. Tracy's......

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......

Facing reality.

The American dream seems to belong to movies, novels and political speeches. For some immigrants in North Carolina,......

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......

‘I may make bad choices but I’m not a bad person’.

Louis Theroux makes great documentaries.  He asks the questions that need asking but puts people at ease enough to reveal something honest about themselves. 'Freaks' turn into real people in front of your......

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......

Boston Big Picture: Typhoon Morakot.

In typically brilliant fashion BOSTON BIG PICTURE is running a series on typhoon Morakot, which has been battering vast areas of Asia. ...

Pink to make the boys wink.

duckrabbit's sometime partner in crime Sam Coley sought me out last night to say he was boycotting duckrabbitblog until we started putting some more happy stuff up. Fair enough. It is the summer here......

Sometimes the story is all in the caption: ‘Audience at Oldham’s first gay pride parade’.

Wow. This picture just floors me. Manchester based Liz Lock and......

One of 8 million, one of a kind.

When I think about New York, I see yellow cabs, neon lights, bright colours, busy streets, huge theatres, glamorous......

Introducing: the real journalist of the future?.

Blogger Adam Westbrook has some very interesting things to say about the journalist of the future.  He forgot......