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  • Doc Memo: FRONTLINE doc on NRA, Secrets to Successful Doc Pitching
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read June 15, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: Master Class with Werner Herzog, $25 Million Pledge to Indie Media
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 2 min read May 19, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs: Course Wrap-Up and Reflections
    A look back on using The New York Times Op-Doc series as the focus for a course in online documentary production.
    Heather McIntosh 5 min read August 26, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs: Helpful Resources
    Some key resources, both online and in print, that helped develop materials for The New York Times Op-Docs curriculum.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read August 19, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs: Course Assignments
    Following a semester of teaching online documentary production through the Op-Docs series, this post offers a round-up of the assignments used in the course.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read August 12, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Upcoming Event: The Documentary Filmmaker as Journalist
    What are the challenges of working in both the documentary and journalism spaces? Find out at the International Documentary Association’s upcoming Doc U panel discussion.
    POV Staff 1 min read February 10, 2015 Documentary News Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs
    In teaching a junior-level news and reporting course this semester, I have decided to use The New York Times's Op-Docs as a production model for thinking about news within online journalism.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read January 27, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Sebastian Junger's Documentary Korengal Is “For the Soldiers”
    Journalist/filmmaker Sebastian Junger talks to Tom Roston about Bowe Bergdahl, Hollywood's depiction of war and revisiting the footage made with his Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington.
    Tom Roston 3 min read June 6, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Use of Force's Nonny de la Peña on Pushing Journalism into the Interactive Realm
    Multi-platform storytelling is giving journalists a new spectrum of creativity within which to compose and share their stories. But how does this leeway affect objectivity?
    Liz Nord 3 min read April 23, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Play Now: The Reportero Challenge: Do You Have What It Takes?
    Do you have what it takes to be the editor of a newspaper in Tijuana, Mexico? Take The Reportero Challenge and find out.
    POV Staff 1 min read January 28, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • #docchat: “In Conversation with the Critics” – Ask a Question or Watch on October 22
    Film journalists Christopher Campbell, Anthony Kaufman and Tom Roston are taking your questions on Tuesday, October 22, 2013, from 12:30-1:30 PM ET (9:30-10:30 AM PT).
    POV Staff 2 min read October 17, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Inspired by a Magazine Article (But Works Better on a Big Screen)
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston asks the question "Have you wondered where magazine stories end and documentaries begin?"
    Tom Roston 4 min read July 19, 2013 Doc Soup Comments
  • “Propaganda” Is the Wrong Word to Describe Kartemquin Films
    Heather McIntosh weighs in on the denying of of Kartemquin's tax exemption because of the claims of its "making a selling of propaganda DVDs."
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read April 16, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Critical Acclaim for 'Reportero' – Watch It Free Online For A Limited Time
    Read what critics and journalists have to say about Reportero, a documentary about a veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly who defy powerful drug cartels and corrupt officials to continue publishing the news.
    POV Staff 2 min read January 25, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Watch 'Reportero' on the PBS Mobile App Starting January 1, 2013!
    Just announced! You can watch the critically-acclaimed 'Reportero' starting January 1, 2013 on the PBS app for iPhone and iPad!
    POV Staff 1 min read January 1, 2013 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Next on POV: 'Reportero'
    Next on POV: The U.S. broadcast premiere of 'Reportero', which follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly in one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists.
    POV Staff 2 min read December 6, 2012 POV Films Blog Comments
  • My Wish List for the Documentary Community
    While others are organizing their list of gifts this holiday season, guest blogger Heather McIntosh provides her own list of wishes for the collective documentary community.
    Heather McIntosh 5 min read December 13, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Journalism Lives! Or Does It?
    “Journalism is not dead!” was the defiant cry from Thursday night’s Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. Columbia Journalism School Dean Nicholas Lemann exhorted the “connected crowd” to turn off their phones and go off the grid for an hour to celebrate the journalistic achievements of their colleagues. The awards, presented as they have been since […]
    David Nanasi 3 min read January 25, 2010 Documentary News Comments

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