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  • 40 Years After: Measuring the Impact of the Pentagon Papers
    Yesterday's 40th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers got a lot of attention in the media. Here's a roundup of coverage from around the Web. And don't forget, you can watch The Most Dangerous Man: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers on the POV website until midnight tonight!
    theresa 1 min read June 14, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: The Ritual of the Year-End List
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame, published every other Wednesday. It’s that time of year again. No, I’m not referring to Christmas, or “the holidays.” Nor am I referring to the winter solstice, New Years or festive binge drinking. […]
    Amanda Hirsch 3 min read December 23, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Biting Back at the Media
    To all those who rail against the media for overzealous reporting, taking advantage of those in crisis, or using underhanded methods to get a cheap scoop, meet your new hero, Alan Abel, whose lifelong pursuit has been to hang the media out to dry. Preying on mainstream media’s insatiable thirst for the lurid, the perverse, […]
    David Nanasi 2 min read April 1, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Arthouse Confidential: Cinema Vérité at Upstate Films
    One summer weekend about 10 years ago, a friend and I were visiting a couple we knew in upstate New York. We wanted to catch a movie before we headed back to New York City that Sunday afternoon, so we asked what the options were. Our friends mentioned the local multiplex, but suggested that if […]
    David Nanasi 3 min read February 19, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • What Documentary Would You Recommend to the Next President?
    Over on the Moyers Blog this week, there is a lively debate about what one book the next occupant of the White House should bring along when he or she moves in next January. The post generated over 2,400 suggestions — and it is worth a look. The recommendations make up an eclectic list of […]
    theresa 1 min read February 7, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Priming for Super Tuesday: Media Guide to Election '08 Video on the Web
    This year, there are so many sites that feature political coverage that it can be almost as overwhelming to wade through the coverage as it is to figure out who really stands for what. Here are a few sites that do a nice job of rounding up audio and video — from news, interviews with […]
    Catherine Jhee 3 min read February 4, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Gregory Warner on 'This American Life'
    Gregory Warner is a talented independent radio producer who worked with POV’s Web department on two episodes of POV’s Borders: Environment and American I.D. Gregory explored the surge in popularity (and sales) that bottled water has achieved in the past decade with an eye toward improving tap water’s poor public image, and charted the great […]
    theresa 2 min read January 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Watch Feature-Length Documentary Films Online with Netflix “Watch Now”
    We test out the service from Netflix that allows instant viewing of movies for PC users. When Netflix’s ‘”Watch Now” feature, which allows users* to watch* movies* instantly*, launched earlier this year, there was some excitement, until all those asterisks reared their ugly heads. And rear they did, and quickly, which is always how things […]
    David Nanasi 2 min read December 17, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Radio Roundup
    Just coming back from seeing Jessica Yu‘s (POV’s In the Realms of the Unreal) new doc Protagonist and want to know more about her other work? Rented Sicko and want to hear Michael Moore‘s opinions on healthcare and the ’08 election? Can’t stop thinking about the Grey Gardens musical you saw last season and want […]
    David Nanasi 2 min read December 10, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: The Masters of Documentary on 'Charlie Rose'
    When the Charlie Rose Show started putting the entirety of its archives on YouTube (3,860 videos and counting), it allowed us to revisit old interviews, and get insightful peeks into the brains of some of the most intelligent, powerful and creative people in American today. Among those are some of America’s greatest documentarians. Charlie Rose […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read December 3, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Making Online Videos
    So you’ve got a great idea for a documentary short, and you want to get started making your film. But how do you light your shoot? What music is legal for you to use? What releases should you have your subjects sign? How do you edit, compress and upload your video? Luckily, there’s a ton […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read November 26, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Culinary Stories on YouTube
    In honor of Thanksgiving, I took a spin around YouTube this weekend to see whether there were any good cooking or food-related videos worth watching. The first video I stumbled across was produced by a group called Cooking Up a Story. They have been producing videos and posting them on YouTube since May of last […]
    theresa 1 min read November 19, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Storytelling Through Visualization
    During the Docs 3.0 panel at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, my fellow panelist Paula Le Dieu talked about how Web technologies are allowing for new forms of storytelling, specifically through what she called visualization. Here are some of the visualization websites she highlighted, which provide visitors a new understanding of very complex data sets and encourage […]
    Ruiyan Xu 1 min read November 14, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Documentary Photography
    For this week’s media guide, we take a look at documentary photography. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then shouldn’t powerful, affecting photographs be able to change the world? Here are some places to start browsing for photographs which are both moving and provocative. Some of these photos showcase situations in the news, […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read October 24, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: Emmy Winners
    With so much video and multimedia on the web, how do you figure out what to watch? POV Blog’s Media Guide is here to recommend some of our favorite online videos. If you’re looking to watch online journalism at its finest, a good place to get started is with the list of winners from the […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read October 11, 2007 Documentary News Comments