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  • With Video Everywhere, a Wealth of Stories Emerge for Documentarians
    The incredible, often disturbing, sometimes uplifting seed ideas for documentaries.
    Tom Roston 3 min read May 31, 2017 Doc Soup Comments
  • How Documentarians Have Covered Donald Trump Throughout the Years
    A look at the past and present documentaries that have covered Donald Trump.
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 19, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • POV and The New York Times Select Three Multimedia Storytellers to Create New Interactive Conversations About Race
    Meet the three mediamakers that will innovate with POV and The New York Times within the Race/Related team.
    POV Pressroom 7 min read August 22, 2016 Press Room Comments
  • POV and The New York Times Collaborate to Explore the Future of Documentary With a New Interactive Project About Race; Now Seeking a Mediamaker to Work in Hybrid Formats
    Funding from MacArthur Foundation will strengthen ties between the two organizations and allow POV to expand the scope of its digital storytelling.
    POV Pressroom 6 min read June 29, 2016 Press Room Comments
  • Doc Memo: Top Pitches from Hot Docs, Human Rights Watch Film Festival Lineup
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 11, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: NYT's Future of Meditative VR, Why Do Documentaries Matter?
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 9, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Field of Vision Marries Documentary with Journalism
    How journalism and documentary can complement each other in ways that touch us in differently.
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 14, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • The Detroit Graduates: Watch the Documentary & Go Behind the Story with The New York Times
    Kassie Bracken discusses The Detroit Graduates, a six part documentary following five high school seniors graduating from Denby High School in Detroit in 2013, the year the city declared bankruptcy.
    Emma Dessau 13 min read September 11, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs: Sound and Observation in Hotel 22
    Elizabeth Lo's short film (and New York Times Op-Doc) Hotel 22 became the focus for a session about sound in documentary.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read April 23, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs: The Role of B-Roll
    As a viewer, I pay too much attention to B-roll. One reason is that B-roll is often intercut with interviews, and it changes the dynamics of movement within the frame.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read March 12, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs: Finding Ideas for Documentaries
    "Where do you get ideas for documentaries?" is the number one question I have received through comments and conversations over the years. Here are some starting points to consider.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read March 5, 2015 Documentary Site Comments
  • Teaching Op-Docs: Women's Stories and Issues
    A handful of the shorts appearing in the Op-Docs series focuses specifically on women and their stories, and this post offers a round-up of some of those stories.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read February 24, 2015 Documentary Site 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
  • Strangers at Sea: Watch the Documentary and Go Behind the Scenes
    Journalist Chris Museler tells POV how he navigated his role as fly on the wall in the high intensity, high stakes New York-Barcelona IMOCA Ocean Masters race onboard with professional sailors Pepe Ribes and Ryan Breymaier.
    Emma Dessau 13 min read November 21, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • This Land: Love and Independence in East Providence: Watch The New York Times Documentary
    Dan Barry and Kassie Bracken introduce Lori Sousa and Peter Maxmean, a Rhode Island couple who met at a training program for workers with intellectual disabilities.
    POV Staff 1 min read October 5, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Op-Doc: “A Marriage to Remember” by 'The Genius of Marian' filmmaker Banker White
    Watch A Marriage to Remember, an Op-Doc from The New York Times by The Genius of Marian filmmaker Banker White.
    POV Staff 1 min read August 26, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • The Men of Atalissa: Watch the Documentary & Go Behind the Story with Journalists from The New York Times
    Kassie Bracken and Dan Barry tell POV the story behind the story of a group of men with intellectual disability who, for decades, were exploited by a turkey-processing company.
    Emma Dessau 14 min read March 8, 2014 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Why Did CNN, Time, Al Jazeera and Netflix Start Documentary Units?
    Several news and media organizations have announced new divisions or commitments to documentary programming. Heather McIntosh investigates why.
    Heather McIntosh 4 min read August 22, 2013 Documentary News Comments

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