Despite the semester being over and facing final exams, Reina Akamatsu, Raja Venkatapathy Mani and Prof. Robert Hernandez headed south of the border in the early hours to capture the caravan of migrants that had walked from Central America in hopes of seeking asylum in the United States.
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JOVRNALISM captures the migrant caravan in 360
Documenting the life of the deported
While we read the headlines and hear the news stories, what happens to someone when they get deported from the United States and are sent to Mexico, a country that many deportees don’t know or speak the language?
What threats do they face when they walk into Tijuana, Mexico? Where can they go and who can they turn to for help? What unknown threats do they now face?
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Immersed in South Korea and PyeongChang Winter Games
Each Olympics event is an opportunity for the host country to showcase itself — its culture, its people, its food — to the world. In 2018, South Korea stood center stage as home to the PyeongChang Winter Games.
In the spirit of exploring opportunities in virtual reality (VR) storytelling for public diplomacy, JOVRNALISM partnered with the USC Center on Public Diplomacy to send an immersive storytelling team to South Korea during this unique time for the country’s world presence.
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JOVRNALISM in South Korea | Behind the Scenes
A small JOVRNALISM team, in partnership with the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, traveled to South Korea during the Winter Games to produce immersive stories, here are some behind the scenes videos and photos.
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JOVRNALISM’s Salton Sea project wins an Online Journalism Award
The immersive project Turning Tides: The Story of the Salton Sea — produced in partnership between the student-led JOVRNALISM and The Desert Sun — won Online News Association’s Online Journalism Award for the student Pro-Am.
The Salton Sea project was produced by two USC Annenberg classes led by Prof. Robert Hernandez and Stuart Sender working alongside The Sun’s talented staff.
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The making of JOVRNALISM
JOVRNALISM all began with a cute typo to save characters on a class site that now produces award-winning, immersive journalism experience all led by USC students from across the university.
Here is a timeline showing some of our highlights:
JOVRNALISM’s next stop? San Pedro, California
We’re excited to be bringing our audience another immersive virtual reality experience from one of the most historic and charming communities in Los Angeles: San Pedro. Although the neighborhood at the end of the 110 Freeway is often times overlooked, we’ll be diving into some of its most unique and fascinating points of interest, such as its world-renowned fish market, major international seaport, movie famous Korean Bell and much more.
CIR/Reveal News: Sinking in Drought VR
The Fall 2017 JOVRNALISM class worked on several immersive projects based on the investigative work by The Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal News, with a focus on the California drought. These are their stories:
California is sinking, again. But only faster.
A wet winter has relaxed the state drought, but its impact is still being felt.
Subsidence occurs when underground, ancient aquifers are pumped essentially deflating the land and causing it to sink. Dr. Joseph F. Poland first discovered this in 1977 and, using a telephone pole, illustrated how California sank 30 feet from the 1920s.
While it was addressed then, it’s happening again now.
The need to water the crops that feed this county and much of the world has caused sinking at an alarming rate once again.
We used a telephone pole, a drone and 360 technologies to illustrate what that looks like in this immersive story produced by JOVRNALISM in collaboration with the CIR/Reveal News.
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JOVRNALISM heads toward the Sea
We’d been working toward this trip for months.
After pitching, research, setting up interviews and weeks of pre-production planning, the Spring 2017 edition of JOVRNALISM head toward the largest lake in California to tell its diverse stories using immersive technologies.
The Salton Sea is this semester’s focus, and it’s rich and complex history.
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JOVRNALISM DC trip: Capturing history in 360
Armed with 12 Samsung Gear 360 cameras (10 on loan), different monopods and selfie sticks, seven USC Annenberg students headed to DC to capture the inauguration of President Trump and the Women’s March that followed.
It was an adventure with highs and lows, long days, no sleep and little food.
It was also extremely productive.
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