How do you pitch freelance interactive/multimedia stories? What do web site editors and producers want? How much will you earn?
Hear all about it from a panel on Freelancing for Multimedia, moderated by Prof. Sandeep Junnarkar.
DATE: Thursday, January 21
TIME: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
PLACE: Café & Room 308
There will be a reception with food and drink at 6 p.m.; the panel starts at 6:30 p.m.
Open to current students and alumni only.
The panelists are:
* Craig Duff, director of multimedia, TIME.com
* Nikki Waller, editor, The Wall Street Journal Online
* Stokes Young, multimedia director, MSNBC.com
* Rome Neal, senior video producer, NYPost.com
PANELIST BIOS:
Craig Duff is an award-winning video journalist and documentary television director, producer, and writer. He is currently the director of multimedia for TIME.com, where he oversees video and podcasts, trains reporters in the use of video, and produces his own work as the magazine expands its online offerings. He has held this post since July 2008.
Nikki Waller is an editor for the Wall Street Journal Online, where she has covered travel, breaking news, personal finance, and the human toll of the financial crisis. Before joining the Journal in January 2008, she was a reporter and editor at the Miami Herald, where she covered local government, criminal courts, and special projects, plus created and launched Miami.com, a Herald site about what to do and see in Miami. Nikki has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Northwestern University, where she majored in fiction writing and gender studies.
Her multimedia projects for WSJ.com include The End of Wall Street, WSJ’s first long-form video documentary project, and the Journal’s mapped travel guides, with destinations and venues picked by local WSJ bureau staff. She has launched long- and short-term blogs, including the Middle Seat Terminal, which tracks and unpacks the world of air travel, and On the Road in India, which sent a reporter on a two-week auto-rickshaw rally across India. See a flaming, crashed rickshaw.
Rome Neal is the senior video producer at NYPost.com, where he oversees all video content and video development. Prior to The New York Post, Neal served as the managing producer and an associate producer of the video department at CBSNews.com. He has also worked at FoxNews.com, where he was a national producer. Neal began his career as a freelance reporter for local publications while interning at RollingStone.com, ABCNews.com, and Vibe magazine. He graduated from New York University with a B.A. in broadcast journalism.
As director of multimedia at msnbc.com, Stokes Young manages the team responsible for production and programming of all video and still photography. Stokes began his career as an assistant at the Black Star photo agency. He has since been a multimedia producer for the msnbc.com business team, the east coast supervising multimedia producer at msnbc.com, director of editorial assignments at Corbis, a video producer at MSN Video, and the director of video atmsnbc.com.