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Jason Pargin's second career pivoting to video. Plus: tools for organizing your reporting, and a database for freelance rates

How the writer and former Cracked editor found his voice with short-form video

Podcast: The Washington Post writer shares his experience covering the intersection of technology, politics, and culture in an era of distrust and division

Plus: visual storytelling from ProPublica and The New York Times.

I’m standing halfway up Hrushevskoho Street on a frosty February morning in Kiev. It’s -13 degrees Celsius, and I’m chain-smoking with my friend and fixer Emine. It makes us feel…

The news business is rarely funny. Much of what we do every day is report on devastating acts of nature, the plight of those without voices – the problems of the…

Until about the past decade, making films or videos required thousands of dollars of equipment, years of experience and an outlet, be it a theater or a TV station. Now…

Let’s talk about why we’re not talking, shall we?I’ve noticed a recent video journalism trend against treating the audience to a bit of narration. Yes, I said narration: the stuff…

Whenever I go out on an assignment I get a few of the same questions from onlookers who see me with my tripod and my reasonably large video camera: “What…