More than a hundred years after the Wright brothers were the first to sustain powered controlled flight, the Wright Flyer Project nears the goal of flying a replica of the original airplane. Story4 is in postproduction of a short documentary on the project, sponsored by the Los Angeles Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

STORY4 has partnered with the Health Improvement Partnership (HIP) in Santa Cruz County to highlight the impact of the community health clinics in HIP’s Safety Net Clinics Coalition. Through patient stories, the video will showcase the innovative work and quality services of the clinics, and the critical role the clinics play in the County’s health care system.

STORY4 is linked in LENS’ Blogroll with a small group of content organizations and blogs. Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, with a mission to present the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting, photographs, videos and slide shows. It launched in June.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com

Also included are close relatives of Story4:
MultimediaShooter.com and MercuryNewsPhoto.com

Multimedia Journalists Discover Life After Newspapers
Non-profits, NGOs and corporations are looking for storytellers, and former newspaper photographers are answering the call.
Click here to read the article

Nonprofits and foundations – check this out! The tired written project report: reinvented as engaging web video!

Digital News Initiative UC Berkeley from richard hernandez on Vimeo.

Richard Koci Hernandez applied his creative visual thinking to a project report for the UC-Berkeley Journalism School’s Digital News Initiative. Richard is a Ford Foundation Fellow at the school and created this video as a progress report for his first semester.

We’re busy teaching and speaking on the road in 2009:

o Multimedia immersion workshop at National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) conference in Las Vegas (June)
o Kalish Workshop for multiplatform visual editing at Ball State University (June)
o Online storytelling at Harvard’s Neiman Journalism Lab (May)
o Multimedia skills workshop for Journalism Association for Women (JAWS) at Stanford (May)
o Web 2.0 Skills webinar presented by National Association of Television Arts and Sciences (April)
o Multimedia skills for the future at San Jose State Journalism Day (April)