NOTE: JOVRNALISM launched on May 31, 2017. The Desert Sun launched their project on June 11, 2017.
The Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, has an interesting history and an uncertain future. This lake is at a dangerous turning point that could create one of the state’s largest environmental disasters.
Using 360 video, drones and computer graphics, this 7-part immersive series explores the different stories and communities that surround the Sea.
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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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The Desert Sun and JOVRNALISM students kicked off the spring semester together.
As the dust begins to settle on the Fall 2016 semester, I wanted to post a preview toward what is coming in the new year.
My J489 class is being offered again and this time we are partnering with The Desert Sun, in Palm Springs. Unlike past partnerships, we are working on a brand new journalistic project together from the very beginning, rather than working with a news organization’s existing editorial content.
The Executive Editor, Greg Burton, reached out earlier this year and pitched the idea of working together in a completely integrated way. And, as important, he had a hell of a story.
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