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The Creative Spark: Brian Kaufman, Visual Journalist

The Creative Spark: Brian Kaufman, Visual Journalist

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Like the automotive industry, newspapers are struggling to stay healthy and relevant in a world of rapid technological advances. Part of newspapers' success will be determined by storytellers like Brian Kaufman, a visual journalist for the Detroit Free Press. When Brian first moved to Detroit, Michigan, he visited the abandoned Packard Plant, a 40-acre complex once considered the epitome of innovation in the automotive world, but since come to represent Detroit's long fall from grace. The plant has slowly been gutted and collapsed into ruin, but to Brian, it represents a chance to re-engage the community in Detroit's rich history and create riveting visual content for the newspaper's website.

Follow along as Brian explains his process for creating long-form video features and how he uses the iPhone to capture and instantly publish breaking news in the field. We also take a look at his Then and Now comparison series, where he maps old images of the Packard Plant over new ones, which the newspaper then turns into interactive experiences for its web audience.

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author
Brian Kaufman
subject
Photography, Documentaries, Creative Spark
level
Advanced
duration
48m 21s
released
Jul 19, 2013

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Brian Kaufman

Brian Kaufman

Brian Kaufman is a videographer at the Detroit Free Press. Kaufman's work spans a broad range, from quick daily assignments to long-term projects on social and environmental issues. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has awarded Kaufman three Emmy awards and in 2011 nominated him in the craft category of Nature and Wildlife Cinematography. The Society of Professional Journalists in Detroit named Kaufman the 2009 Young Journalist of the Year and his work as a photographer and editor has been recognized by a number of other local and national organizations.

Kaufman's career began with a Visual Journalism degree at Brooks Institute of Photography in California and a job at the Naples Daily News in Florida, where he helped launch the first newspaper-based television newscast in the country. In 2007 Kaufman joined the Detroit Free Press, where he has been instrumental in facilitating the education of video journalism of other newspaper photographers and reporters. Kaufman teaches multimedia storytelling at the Maine Media Workshops and has coached at the National Press Photographers Association's annual Immersion workshop.

His free time is best spent… outdoors.
Course Title   Level   Duration   Released  
The Creative Spark: Brian Kaufman, Visual Journalist Beginner 48m 21s 07/2013  {8}

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