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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
Learning ‘Brief But Spectacular’ Life Lessons In Just Three Minutes
A video series piq this time, of PBS NewsHour's "Brief But Spectacular" series. They are short three-minute video monologues of all kinds of interesting people, who share a ‘brief but spectacular’ idea they are working on or a life experience that taught them something important. It’s definitely a format suited to social media, and each episode is uploaded on Twitter using the hashtag #BriefButSpectacular.
I was impressed with the quality of the stories and how the interviewees were able to share wonderful insights in just three minutes. There are many fascinating ones, focusing on topics from artificial intelligence to Alzheimer’s. I really like that the series gives a voice to the people the issue is about. For example, in this episode in which American prisoners tell their own stories.
I also enjoyed recognising a social entrepreneur whom I interviewed myself before. Alexander McLean uses his three minutes to explain how he’s creating law schools and law firms inside African prisons, where many prisoners fight their own cases, even on death row. His lesson is one of the many I took away from watching videos on the site: “Each of us has much more to offer than the worst thing we've done.”
