CNN Vision is CNN International's new creative production department that has the power to access, create and engage.

CNN Vision

Hello Storyhunters! 

Happs is a digital startup created by a team of accomplished innovators from journalism, technology, documentary film, news, and international media.   Award-winning journalist Laura Ling, former head of the Vanguard investigative team at Current TV, is our Head of Original Content. David Neuman, former Chief Programming Officer of CNN and President of Programming for Current TV and Channel One, is our Chief Creative Officer.  Mark Goldman, founding president of Sky Latin America, and former Chief Operating Officer of Current TV, is our CEO.  Together and separately, we’ve helped launch the careers of journalists including: Anderson Cooper, Lisa Ling, Mariana van Zeller, Christof Putzel, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Gotham Chopra, Serena Altschul, Conor Knighton, Tracy Smith, Jason Silva, and others. 

Now we’re creating a network dedicated to live streaming the most fascinating, important, interesting “happenings” going on in our world.  Through 20 min to 1 hour live streams, where viewers can interact with journalists on the ground in real time, we're building an exciting new destination where important stories about the world are being told in the most up-close-and-personal way possible. 

We hope you’ll join us in our mission to inform and inspire through immersive, live, shared experiences.  

Please send us ideas for interesting “Happs” and check back regularly for our call outs. We look forward to working with you! 


You can find examples of Happs Live Streams on our Twitter: 

https://twitter.com/HappsNews


Happs

Al Jazeera Arabic (US)

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Hear the human story and join the discussion. We go beyond cold facts and bring to light what matters. 

Al Jazeera English - Digital

 
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

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I created, wrote, co-produced and co-directed this series for Torontoist.com using footage from a feature documentary I was doing about the war on graffiti in Toronto. We did 7 episodes, and 4 of them aired on Torontoist.com, and this one was picked up by Wooster Collective, the biggest graffiti publication in the world at the time. 

Torontoist.com: Graffiti Talks: Episode 1 - Deadboy

This was the first Facebook live I did and it was seen by 107k people, had 32k likes, a lot of comments and was shared 339 times. 

Al Jazeera English- Canadian Women Head to Washington to Protest trump

I pitched and was assigned this Facebook live report covering the Toronto anti-Islamaphobia rally and vigil for the Quebec mosque attack in March 2017. It was seen over 325k times, shared more than 3k times and had more than 12k interactions. 

Al Jazeera fb Live News Report - Vigil for Quebec Mosque Attack

An NGO reached out to a Syrian cooking project in Toronto to ask them to help solve a problem. The emergency food packs they are dropping in Syrian war zones are not only culturally unfamiliar, they taste awful. They asked the Syrian female chefs from the popular pop-up kitchen project to help create a new recipe that would be familiar, tasty & nourishing for Syrians fleeing war, as they once had.

Canadian Syrian Refugee Chefs Create New Recipe for Emergency Packets Dropped in Syrian War Zone

A video about a fire-breathing stunt performer who overcomes his crippling PTSD (resulting from a near-death random attack) by flirting with death through performing stunts and setting world records. 

Fire breather Christopher Campbell works through his PTSD by breaking world records

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Middle East Editor at AJ+. I'm looking for compelling visuals and strong narratives from across the Middle East.

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Freelance VJ (NYT, Time Mag, AJ+) turned Producer for a super cool startup - Happs. 

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