This package was made to celebrate the 50th year of operation for the New Pittsburgh Courier. It debuted at a Pittsburgh Black Media Federation forum on the campus of Point Park University.
This is more than an assignment for me. This a passion. Homestead is my hometown. And I'll always be proud to be from here.
This is a Video Press Kit for the Polk-A-Dot Daycare in West Homestead, Pennsylvania. My mom has run this daycare for 23 years and is the source of many great memories for the children and people who work here.
These videos were created during the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Point Park Center For Media Innovation.
Andy Conte, director of the Center for Media Innovation, sits down with David Folkenflik, Media Correspondent for NPR. The two discuss the state of the media during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the media is still hurting financially despite an increase in readership digitally. The conversation touches on the variety and ambition of ideas submitted to last year's fellowship and advice to people who are thinking about applying.
These videos are for the Virtual High School Media Day. The COVID-19 Pandemic canceled the Spring High School Media Day a day before the schools were scheduled to arrive at the Center For Media Innovation.
Bill Moushey worked for 36 years as a broadcast and newspaper journalist, documenting a wide range of abuses in the criminal justice system and elsewhere. He talks about his career beginnings from covering mob trials in Cleveland to overturning wrongful convictions with the Innocence Project.
A part of virtual High School Media Day hosted by the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park, Fast Company reporter Zlati Meyer talks with CMI Director Andrew Conte about her background in journalism, business reporting, and applying media skills to any career.
Meyer has worked as a staff reporter for USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and UPI's New York City bureau. She freelanced for a variety of news outlets, including the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, and New York Magazine. Meyer has a bachelor's degree from Boston University and a master's degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Richard Kelly, an adjunct instructor of photography at Point Park, will discuss how technology allows us to all become publishers, writers, photographers, and video creators, but visual media at its best still relies on research, skills, and storytelling. No matter the tool, well-composed images make for a more memorable story.