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AJ+ is a global news community for the connected generation. We highlight human struggles and achievements, empower impassioned voices, and challenge the status quo.  <br>  It's is Al Jazeera's mobile app and social stream dedicated for the connected generation.

Our VJ are used to leverage original short  and personal form of storytelling from the ground.

AJ+ VJ stories are not normal news.  A straight-forward look at who, what, when, where doesn’t work for us.  We are looking for stories that are made interesting by the unexpected angle, human side, or visually captivating.   Ask yourself does this story move me or does it just inform me? 
 
Here are some aspects of what makes an AJ+ story:
Unique side angle on a major story.  Also a story that connects two things not commonly associated with each other.
Pushback to conventional wisdom on how the mainstream media (including Al Jazeera) or governments frame an issue.  
Emotional or compassionate side of a story.  Show specifically how people are directly affected by the issue (Emotions go beyond sadness can be awe, humor, anger, love, inspiration, etc…).  
Direct from the ground.  Hear directly from people in the city/town/village where the bigger story is taking place.
 Incredible visual.  Is there something we need to see (and hear) to believe?  This is video, so let’s leverage those stories.  It doesn’t have to be “hard news.”


Commissioned videos will appear at least one of AJ+'s language channels (English, Spanish, Arabic) and potentially on our partner's channels too.



<b> If you are producing a package for us, take a look at our "what works" video:  https://vimeo.com/121171058    </b>

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Here is what we've recently used freelance VJ's through StoryHunter for:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSRIx29Ufd9C67ZRPmCBOldm0ZI-linGk


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Lakshmi Sarah is an educator and journalist with a focus on immigration, migration, identity and the arts. She has produced content for newspapers, radio and magazines from Ahmedabad, India to Los Angeles, California including AJ+, KQED, Die Zeit Online and The New York Times.

With a passion for experimental innovative projects, she was an Oculus Launch Pad grant recipient and member of YouTube’s VR Creators Lab in Los Angeles. She has presented for the Online News Association, SXSW and BinderCon since co-founding Tiny World Productions, an innovative immersive journalism studio.

She has developed curriculum training journalists in video and immersive storytelling skills in the U.S., India and around the world. As a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Berkeley’s Advanced Media Institute, she has also taught multimedia and VR workshops. Her teaching and reporting brought her to Hamburg, Germany as a Fulbright Fellow and Berlin as a Arthur F. Burns Fellow with Die Zeit Online.

She is a graduate of Pitzer College and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and divides her time between Berkeley, Berlin and southern India.

Lakshmi E.

Hello! I'm a producer, reporter, writer, videographer and digital journalist.
I worked as a producer on AJ+'s news team for 2.5 years where I produced videos from conception to publication daily. I also reported and shot video in the field, developed new storytelling formats, assisted with in-studio shoots and presented pieces in front of the camera. I earned my Master of Journalism degree with an emphasis in New Media from UC Berkeley in 2016. I've written and reported for The Atlantic.com, Univision, Newsday, The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, The Bismarck Tribune, The Campbell Reporter and Berkeleyside.

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