Anne Hull

For anyone interested in journalism I would suggest putting Anne Hull on your radar. I just finished listening to a talk she gave on ‘reporting place’. She believes in a technique I would tend to call submersion. She suggests that in order to create the atmosphere and enrich the story you have to go out and put yourself in the environment your talking about and often the shoes of the people you are reporting. Often these places aren’t the most comfortable but by hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and feeling you are able to get a lot closer to the story you are trying to report on. A very interesting argument.

Anne Hull is a journalist for the Washington Post.

In the Beginning

I’m currently studying first year media at RMIT University. As a part of my course in networked media I will be keeping a blog of all the concepts discussed in this course. My main influences for studying this course is in an attempt to join the the film and TV industry so I will also be blogging about anything I find particularly interested in that field, although will not confine myself just to that. Stay tuned.