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Finding Aurora is a small NY-based production company that produces short form digital content for digital news and media companies in the U.S.  It was started by Megan Robertson, a producer with experience at MSNBC, CBS News and HuffPost.  We look forward to working with you!

Finding Aurora

From local to national, we engage the country to tell its stories. 

We have created a powerful network of brands and capabilities that position us well to ensure and preserve the future of local journalism.  

With deep roots in cities and towns across the U.S. and the U.K., our company brings a long-standing history of investing in journalism. Our mission is to make communities stronger. We inform and engage them — as an award-winning, trusted news organization, and as a modern media company pushing the boundaries of what content is, how it’s experienced and how it’s used. 

In addition, we share a commitment to supporting local commerce, enabling businesses to connect with customers and to thrive. 

We will continue to connect people to content that matters, and businesses to the customers that they want to reach.

Gannett

Welcome to Great Big Story, a digital video network dedicated to the untold, the overlooked and the flat-out amazing.  All of the stories we tell are meant to feed your curiosity and show you something you've never seen before.  

Great Big Story

BRIC TV is Brooklyn's non-profit cable channel and digital network.

Brooklyn Independent Media programming is carried on Brooklyn’s Spectrum 1992, Optimum 70, Verizon FiOS 46 (all five boroughs), and youtube.com/brictv.

BRIC TV

G/O Media is a publishing company with a portfolio of digital brands whose independent and passionate voices attract one of the largest audiences of 18- 44 year-olds available anywhere.

Our digital brands include: tech and science site Gizmodo; The A.V. Club, focused on pop culture; sports news site Deadspin; Jalopnik for those obsessed with all things autos; feminist site Jezebel; gaming news and tips site Kotaku; Lifehacker, the guide to doing everything better; Black news and culture site The Root; humor and satire site The Onion; food, drink and recipe site The Takeout, along with e-commerce site The Inventory.

G/O Media

NBC News Digital is the digital video arm of NBC News. We focus on storytelling on current events in the United States. We create "in their own words" documentaries or mini-docs, mashups, and explainers. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal.

NBCUniversal

Makeshift

 
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

Multi Media company specializing in Digital Content

AwesomenessTV

Ensia is an independent, non-profit magazine sharing compelling stories from around the world about emerging environmental challenges and solutions. We cover a broad spectrum of issues and ideas at the crossroads of different sectors, disciplines, ideologies and geographies. Our mission is to share stories and ignite conversations that motivate and empower people to create a more sustainable future.



Ensia

Multiple cameras

DSLR or equivalent

External recorder

Wireless lavalier mic

Shotgun mic

Shoulder rig

Binational start-up hubs foster innovation on both sides of US-Mexico Border

Julio is a traditional curandero who lives in the remote, jungle region of Bocas del Toro, Panama. He cultivates and collects hundreds of wild plants to make medicines. Although modern medical clinics are now within a day's walk of most Ngäbe villages, many of the primarily indigenous residents still prefer the natural medicine and practice, or are turned away from the hospital.

Makeshift Magazine - Searching for Cures in the Panamanian Jungle

Alexis, a former squatter and gang-member in Casco Viejo Panama now runs a neighborhood shop that operates on "good deed" currency. Acts of social good can earn you poker chips redeemable for soccer balls, cell phones and other coveted items, refocusing the attention of the neighborhoods vulnerable young men from doing bad to doing good. 

A former gang member creates shop run on kindness currency

City of Mountain near Green Bay Wisconsin, 1-Day Video Shoot

Ending Gun Violence Starts at the Barbershop

Mosul Doctors - Iraq

On the Frontline of Iraq's Waterways

Autism Sign Language with Emily Kinskey

[Urgent] interview w/ Professor William Cavanaugh

United States of America

Texas

El Paso

North America

Senior Producer / Project Manager

Video Editor - News

Documentary DP

Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

Reporter / Journalist

News Shooter / Video Journalist

Commercial DP

Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

TV News Producer

Video Editor - Documentary

Video Editor - Commercial

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

Geoffrey D.

Video Producer for NBCNews.com and MSNBC.com

Geraldine C.

Documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist. 

Emily K.

Silvio C.

Lakshmi S.

I'm a NY-based freelance Executive Producer that has worked on the digital teams at places like HuffPost, CBSN, MSNBC and The Points Guy.  I enjoy working on videos with a global reach for major news organizations, and collaborating with talent around the world. 

Emily K.

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Mosul Doctors - Iraq

A former gang member creates shop run on kindness currency

Binational start-up hubs foster innovation on both sides of US-Mexico Border

Ending Gun Violence Starts at the Barbershop

City of Mountain near Green Bay Wisconsin, 1-Day Video Shoot

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Miscellaneous

About Emily

Top Projects

Mosul Doctors - Iraq

A former gang member creates shop run on kindness currency

Binational start-up hubs foster innovation on both sides of US-Mexico Border

Ending Gun Violence Starts at the Barbershop

City of Mountain near Green Bay Wisconsin, 1-Day Video Shoot

All Services

Pre-Production

Production Support

Post-Production

Emily's Clients

Similar Freelancers

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