An interview with NYT’s Life on Mars co-producer Niko Koppel (extra grad project by Wasim Ahmad)

In this day and age, perhaps one can start to consider me an “old school” video journalists. I was shooting on tapes at newspapers in 2006. While I enjoy video that puts me there, such as this video of Rio Carnival, I’m still all about having some sort of narrative thread behind the video. So when I saw Life on Mars: Preparing for the Red Planet, and watched as these scientists conducted this interesting NASA-funded social experiment of living in close quarters for 8 months to simulate life on mars,...

I’m a technological luddite: My first VR experience

When I was teaching digital journalism at another university, a colleague of mine called me a "technological luddite" because I didn't want to use Flickr to host photos for the school's website I was building and preferred to keep it all in house. While that proved to be a smart decision, the real reason behind this was actually my fear of "The Cloud." I mean, what if it rained, right? But I got over this fear, and while I don't specifically use Flickr much, I've fully embraced cloud services in...