At The Dodo, we’re building a digital brand for everyone who loves animals and cares about their wellbeing. Our goal is to serve up emotionally and visually compelling, highly sharable animal-related stories and videos to as many people as possible to help make caring about animals a viral cause. We want our readers to fall in love with animals, have fun and be entertained while they’re doing it, and feel empowered to help animals in need. The Dodo is for everyone who loves animals and wants to spread that love and make the world a better place for them.

The Dodo

For more than 30 years, The Weather Channel television network has inspired viewers to explore, investigate and appreciate the experience of weather in all its forms. One of the most widely distributed cable networks, The Weather Channel is the leader in severe weather coverage, providing the most comprehensive coverage of any media outlet, and with trusted meteorologists who analyze, forecast and report the weather - its expertise is unrivaled. The network is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.

Weather Group Television, LLC

Film & TV Production company with experience producing documentary style content for broadcast and web. 

DANGERWORKS

VOA Mandarin Global Alliance

NowThis is a distributed media company that creates cross-platform stories for people who live on their phones. We create platform-appropriate content for Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat and more of the social feeds and apps you love.

NowThis

Hearst Television is a national multimedia company with operations serving nearly three dozen U.S. cities, reaching one out of every five U.S. households. It delivers local and national news, weather, information, sports and entertainment programming via every available content-delivery platform. Hearst Television is recognized as one of the media industry’s premier companies, where quality journalism and service to community are our core values. The company and its employees have been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation and community service. 

Hearst Television

 
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

HLN: Headline news in the morning, mysteries and investigations at night.

4K video camera

Multiple cameras

DSLR or equivalent

External recorder

Lighting kit

Wireless lavalier mic

Shotgun mic

Stabilizer

Shoulder rig

Sliders

Drone

A short doc, profiling one of the survivors from the Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston in 2015.

The Charleston Church Shooting - Felicia's Story // Today.com

Trailer for a series that we helped produce, shoot and edit for Today.com

I filmed and edited 6 of the 11 short documentaries.

"Survivors" Web Series Trailer

Short Documentary on how the pandemic is affecting the opioid crisis.

Is The Pandemic Creating The Next Opioid Crisis?

Inside Former Prisoners’ Fight to Vote in Florida

'I should not be held hostage because I cannot afford to pay court costs, fees, or restitution.'

Filmed the Interview of Dr. Vasudha Narayanan in this segment for Apocalypse NowThis

How Are You Going to Die: God

Mini-doc for web about a town in Georgia, USA that takes in thousands of refugees each year.

Zach R.

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Is The Pandemic Creating The Next Opioid Crisis?

Inside Former Prisoners’ Fight to Vote in Florida

How Are You Going to Die: God

'I should not be held hostage because I cannot afford to pay court costs, fees, or restitution.'

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