The Believer

Chaik Khana

 
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


AJPlus

Multiple cameras

DSLR or equivalent

External recorder

Wireless lavalier mic

Shotgun mic

8,000 words on the history of the debate over whether fish feel pain.

Harvesting Nemo

A narrative, highly produced podcast that cover the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Listeners in dozens of countries. A recent Columbia Journalism Review profile described us as "pretty magical."
(http://www.cjr.org/the_profile/podcasts_in_the_south_caucasus.php)

Taxi Taxi Podcast

An example of the short features I reported when I covered the "rural beat" in the South Caucasus for Eurasianet

Burying Ivan

Kyrgyzstan doctor Jengishbek Nazaraliev tackles opioid addiction using controversial methods, but his patients say the treatment works. 

Kyrgyzstan opiate addiction center

Vladic R.

Asia

Tbilisi

Georgia

Video Editor - News

Documentary DP

Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

Reporter / Journalist

News Shooter / Video Journalist

Sound Mixer

Video Editor - Documentary

Video Editor - Commercial

AJ+ Executive Producer of News Gathering
What we've done: tinyurl.com/aj-vjmap 

Geoffrey D.

Freelancing for nine years, mostly in the South Caucasus.

Launched the Taxi Taxi podcast, www.TaxiTaxiPodcast.com

Graduated Columbia Journalism School in 2013

Fulbright Scholar in 2015

Talent Discovery

Creator Management Platform

Glimmer Studios

Vladic R.

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Kyrgyzstan opiate addiction center

Taxi Taxi Podcast

Harvesting Nemo

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