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Jason Motlagh, periodista freelance con base en Estanbul, comparte la ruta que lo llevó a convertirse en reportero multimedia.

“Juggling gear and making split-second decisions under pressure—as to what to document and how—are near-constant challenges. While it can be invigorating to do on my own what once required a crew of people, at times it can feel self-defeating. At those moments I envy colleagues who doggedly devote themselves to a single medium. Their videos or photographs often seem sharper, and their text stories are richer with nuance. Perhaps they really are.” (…)

“(Craig Duff, the multimedia director at Time.com. ) was willing to stomach some of my early shortcomings as a videographer. One thing I remember him saying upfront was that submissions he received tended to have the ‘V but not the J’, in other words, the technical video skills but not the journalistic backbone.”

Link: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102472/From-War-Zones-to-Life-at-Home-Serendipity-and-Partners-Matter.aspx