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Voice of Russia radio is hiring in Washington DC

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Pass this on to your colleagues in the DC area. And since VOR will be broadcasting in NY, perhaps there will be some future opportunities there as well. Stay tuned!
-mia

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The “Voice of Russia”, the leading and the only Russian international
broadcaster, has recently embarked on a new project launching a 24-hour
radio station in New York and in Washington, DC. on AM bands (at the

bottom of this letter I have attached more info on VOR – in former times
similar Russian structure to VOA).

In the long run the format of the radio station would be similar to
international government run stations like Deutsche Welle, Radio France

International and BBC World Radio. VOR US would see its mission in
providing international and local news, informing the public locally on
current events, politics, and civic affairs; export Russian arts and cultural

riches to NY and Washington and give voice to diverse audiences. As we
envision approximately 30% of original programming and content will be
made locally by US production team while the rest will be produced by our

Moscow-based studio.

The project is unfolding gradually – right now we are broadcasting from
Moscow (http://english.ruvr.ru ), but tentatively in March 2011 our

Washington DC based on-air facility starts operating and local team will
start producing US based content. Our current personnel search is going
in various directions, but one of our primary concerns is hiring experienced
on –air talents, anchors/radio hosts and reporters for our locally produced

shows (approximately 3- hour long morning and evening shows). We will
be having interviews with candidates for the above mentioned positions in
Washington DC from March 1-March 11. So at this stage we have reached

some preliminary agreements but still searching for more candidates.

If you know people who might be interested in anchor/reporter‘s positions
based in Washington, please let them know about the opportunities ahead.

I will gladly provide more details on the show format and requirements for
candidates after January 12th. Here is an e-mail for letters of interest
and resumes: rubinova@ruvr.ru

Freelance Cafe West

Bay Area Video Coalition Preservation Internship

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This is an UNPAID internship, but BAVC is a great org and a great place to learn/network if you have 12-16 hours/week to spare. Details and contact info below.

-Mia

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Bay Area Video Coalition

Preservation Internship

The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) is seeking an intern to work

side-by-side experienced video and audio preservationists for 12

weeks, 12-16 hours per week. Interns will gain valuable apprentice

skills, observe industry professionals and participate in the

day-to-day workings of a nationally recognized preservation facility.

Interns can expect to leave BAVC’s program with a thorough

understanding of video formats, preservation techniques, navigating a

preservation suite, and the administration of running a successful

program. The goal of the internship program is to expose new people to

the preservation field in hopes of increasing the number of industry

professionals exposed to the technical concepts around video and

digital preservation; as well as raising awareness in the production

community of the need for preservation.

Interns will start with preservation administrative tasks and will

grow into more advanced preservation projects depending on their

aptitude and ability to complete projects to industry standards. The

depth of advanced training of interns shall be left to the discretion

of BAVC’s staff on a case by case basis.

Skills acquired can include:

• Archival handling of videotapes

• Operating a patch bay

• Reading a waveform monitor, vector scope and audio meters

• Using a time base corrector

• Tape duplication

• Concepts in new and emerging technologies

• Tape inspection

• Assisting in preservation administrative duties

• Metadata and cataloging entry

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of signal flow

• Understanding of basic video production

• Experience in a library, archive, museum, or education facility

• Desire to learn about preservation, conservation, and digital repositories

Preservation interns are not BAVC employees and will not be

compensated for hours worked. They will also not receive health

benefits or paid time off; however, college credit may be arranged.

All applicants must send a résumé and cover letter, which should

include a personal statement about  how this internship will build

from your existing experience and help you in your future goals to

jennifero@bavc.org. BAVC believes in a diverse work force and

applicants from underserved or minority communities are encouraged to

apply.

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Freelance work for American Association of Healthcare Journos

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Potentially good pay for this multimedia freelance gig. Details below.
-mia

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http://www.healthjournalism.org/prof-dev-jobs-details.php?id=259

The Association of Health Care Journalists seeks freelance assistance in building helpful and dynamic web pages for fellow journalists trying to keep up with the implementation of health reform and the continuing health care debate.

This year-to-year commitment would include writing tip sheets for journalists, summarizing key issues, webcasting short interviews with top experts, and identifying good story examples and important dates for journalists. This writer would work with AHCJ's Web editor to encourage reader interaction and should be willing to share knowledge at AHCJ events. Experience in covering health reform a must. Multimedia experience a plus.

This freelance work will pay up to $12,000 a year.

Send letter stating applicable experience with resume (and story links) to champion@healthjournalism.org by Jan. 28. Notes of inquiry can be sent to the same address.

Position details

We will be looking for a lead editor or "champion" in each of several topic areas we want to feature on the healthjournalism.org website. These new "learning centers" are expertise areas we feel are essential to reporting on health or health care.

The health reform topic champion will:

(at the front end)

  • write a collection of concise background briefs – explainers on the various elements going into the health reform law
  • set up a timeline showing when each piece of the law goes into effect
  • write or assign explainer pieces to go with each of the timeline elements, including localized story suggestions

(on-going)

  • contribute a blog item once a week to AHCJ's blog, Covering Health, that points out good work being done around the country or otherwise prepares reporters to advance their coverage
  • Search for key health reform-related events to add to AHCJ's Web calendar
  • Review crowd-sourced suggestions once a week and determine which to add to our resources
  • Arrange for occasional audio or video interviews with a health reform expert or fellow journalist
  • Assign occasional first-person stories/tip boxes by other journalists ("how I covered this aspect of health reform")

Freelance Cafe West

CA fellowships to attend Health Journalism 2011

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Fellowships available to attend this health journalism conference. Details and deadlines below.
-mia

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2011 AHCJ-California Health Journalism Fellowships                                              


Need financial assistance to attend Health Journalism 2011, the national conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists?

 

Thanks to the California HealthCare Foundation’s generous support, AHCJ will be able to grant a number of professional fellowships for the April 14-17, 2011 conference in Philadelphia.

 

Fellowships are open to full-time California print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

 

Fellowships include:

         all conference registration fees

         a one year membership in the AHCJ (new or extended)

         up to four nights in the conference hotel (Wednesday-Saturday)

         up to $400 towards travel

 

For more information and an application form (see below) or click HERE!  You may also cut and paste the following link into your browser:  http://www.healthjournalism.org/secondarypage-details.php?id=906

 

The completed form and accompanying material must arrive in our office via e-mail to ev@healthjournalism.org, or at the below address,

by Feb. 23, 2011:

 

Association of Health Care Journalists

Attn: Fellowships Program-CA

10 Neff Hall

Columbia, MO 65211

 

The Association of Health Care Journalists is an independent, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues. Its mission is to improve the quality, accuracy and visibility of health care reporting, writing and editing.

Freelance Cafe East

Deutsche Welle’s English’s Pulse looking for Asia, Africa freelance pitches

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Hey folks. This from one of our long-time FC members who moved across the pond:

From my colleague, Kate Bowen, who runs Pulse, our youth culture show.
Please send pitches to: kate.bowen@dw-world.de and tell her I sent
you.
-Cyrus Farivar

Details below for traveling audio folks.
-mia

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Our current series Europe on a Shoestring will be coming to a close
when the clocks change in March. At that time, we'll begin a new
series profiling young people all over the world who are making a
difference around them.

TOPIC:

Find a young person (under 30) who is actively engaged in making the
world a better place in some way. This could be through peace
activism, environmental projects, providing music lessons to
underpriveleged children, cleaning up trash in their neighborhood,
volunteering at a senior center, rescuing an endangered species, etc.
Maybe they have founded an organization, maybe they are a small player
in a larger help organization, or maybe they are just being proactive
on their own. Whatever the case, it needs to be clear to the listener
that this person is worth profiling.

As I am particularly interested in geographical diversity, please keep
our series in mind when you are traveling to interesting places!

FORMAT:

I am looking for a sound-rich package profiling your chosen
individual. While they are the focus of the report, clearly they
impact other people, so it's crucial to have a couple other voices in
there as well. Include as much

The packagd must be exactly 5 minutes long (as close as possible) to
make it as interesting as possible for rebroadcasters.

FEE:

240 Euros.

TIME FRAME:

The series begins with daylight savings time – the first show after
that is on Tuesday, March 29. It will run through the change of the
clocks in October. Please start submitting pitches as soon as
possible.

I very much look forward to your pitches and to making this an exciting series.

ps – We're still looking for a name for the series; your ideas are welcome.

Kate Bowen
Kulturredakteurin / Culture Editor
DW-RADIO/DW-WORLD.DE/Englisch

Deutsche Welle
Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 3
53113 Bonn, Deutschland / Germany

Tel: ++49 228 429-2592
Fax: ++49 228 429-4583
kate.bowen@dw-world.de

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5-channel sound installation at UnionDocs in NYC this Sunday, 1/23

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This NYC Union Docs event looks very cool on many levels. Check it out!
-Mia

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If you're in NYC this Sunday, we have an amazing sound event at UnionDocs in Brooklyn. Anthropologist and sound artist Ernst Karel will be presenting recent and in-progress ethnographic electroacoustic work on a 5 channel / 5 speaker system.
Hope to see you there, and email if you have any questions!
Kara
Kara Oehler
Director
UnionDocs Collaborative Program
Sunday, January 23 at 7:30pm $9 suggested donation
UnionDocs | 322 Union Ave | Brooklyn, NY 11211

Ernst Karel will present recent and in-progress work made from location recordings, in stereo, quadraphonic, and 5-channel configurations.  Work will include:  Heard Laboratories (and/OAR 2010) and a 5-channel extension of that project incorporating an electroacoustic interpretation by the Chicago Sound Map ensemble; a piece composed for German radio connected with Swiss mountain transport systems, an eight-channel work in collaboration with Helen Mirra currently on exhibition at Diapason Gallery; current quadraphonic work in progress; and if time allows, experimental ethnographic audio work coming out of the Sensory Ethnography Lab.

Discussion might take up the documentary use of nonlinguistic sound to produce ‘doubtful knowing’, in connection with ideas such as anthropologist of sound Steven Feld’s notion of ‘acoustemologies’, or sonic ways of knowing and being in the world, and the recognition (found, for example, in new books by sound theorists Salomé Voegelin and David Toop) that listening is an experience of a continuously fleeting, ungraspable present moment, and as such is “full of phemonemological doubt,” as Voegelin puts it (Listening to Noise and Silence, 2010:4): “The understanding gained is a knowing of the moment as a sensory event that involves the listener and the sound in a reciprocal inventive production.”

Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. His musical biography includes classical trumpet, early-1990s Seattle ‘free noise’, jazz, extended-technique acoustic improvisation, and electronic/electroacoustic improvisation and composition. He performs widely both solo and in various collaborations, has made solo and collaborative sound installations, and his work has been released on and/OAR, Another Timbre, BoxMedia, Cathnor, Dead CEO, Formed, Kuro Neko, Locust, Lucky Kitchen, and Sedimental record labels, among others. Current collaborations include the long-running electroacoustic duo EKG and the New England Phonographers Union. He has worked as a live sound engineer, recordist, and editor at Chicago Public Radio, mixed audio and contributed sound design for nonfiction video. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago, where his fieldwork-based dissertation, Kerala Sound Electricals, was a study in the anthropology of sound. Karel currently manages the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center at Harvard University, where as Lecturer on Anthropology, he also co-teaches courses in media archaeology and ethnographic audio and video production.

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Ford Foundation to Put Up $50 Million for Documentaries

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New funding possibility for doc filmmakers. Woo hoo!!
-mia

www.fordfoundation.org/justfilms


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From the NY Times
January 18, 2011, 2:09 pm

Ford Foundation to Put Up $50 Million for Documentaries

By BROOKS BARNES
Documentarians, rejoice! The Ford Foundation on Tuesday announced a five-year plan to pour $50 million into documentaries -– defined broadly, including online-only efforts -– that are focused on social issues.
“With the growth of the Web and social networks, the potential global audience for filmed content with a social conscience has exploded,” Luis A. Ubiñas, president of the Ford Foundation, said in a statement.
Although the documentary has flourished in recent years in large part because of festival support, the genre continues to pose severe financing challenges because of a lack of interest at the mainstream box office. The Ford Foundation’s program, called JustFilms, will dole out money in three ways. The first involves partnerships with organizations like the Sundance Institute, whose Sundance Film Festival opens on Thursday in Park City, Utah. JustFilms will contribute $1 million a year over five years to support Sundance’s documentary film workshops, for instance.
Other financing plans for JustFilms include an open application process -– details are at www.fordfoundation.org/justfilms – and partnerships with other Ford Foundation grant-making programs where the introduction of a documentary film could help draw attention.
Directing the program will be Orlando Bagwell, whose credits include the award-winning PBS series “Eyes on the Prize,” which looked at the civil rights movement. Mr. Bagwell said the foundation’s major commitment “reflects our recognition that individual stories –- meaningful and well told -– can be a powerful instrument of change.”
JustFilms is already supporting several films, including “Detroit Hustles Harder,” a documentary that chronicles the lives of people who have decided to stay in that economically ravaged city and work for its recovery.
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Metcalf Fellowships Application Deadlines approaching

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Some upcoming fellowships from the Metcalf Institute. Details below.
-mia

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NEWS@METCALF  

January 18, 2011

 

Metcalf Institute FELLOWSHIPS APPLICATION DEADLINE REMINDER

 

Metcalf Institute Deadlines for Seminar and Workshop on Oil Spill Research

Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting is accepting applications for two science training programs for journalists and informal science educators focusing on research on impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Science Seminar, April 6-8, 2011, in Cocodrie, LA; and the 13th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, June 12-17, 2011, in Narragansett, RI.

 

These fellowships are made possible by a Rapid Response grant through the National Science Foundation's Informal Science Education program.

 

Science Seminar: Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster

April 6-8, 2011 in Cocodrie, LA
Application postmark deadline: January 31, 2011

 

Participants will gain hands-on knowledge of oceanographic techniques, cultivate scientific resources and sharpen their reporting and communication skills, and discuss the latest research on the oil spill impacts with leading experts.

 

The seminar supports journalists and informal science educators with a minimum of two years professional experience and a demonstrated interest in environmental communication or reporting. Tuition free, includes room and board and some travel support. Applications for the 2.5-day Science Seminar must be postmarked by January 31, 2011.

 

For additional science seminar program information, call 401-874-6211 or email fellowships@metcalfinstitute.org.

 

13th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists
Coastal Impacts: One Year of Research on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

June 12 –17, 2011 in Narragansett, RI

Application postmark deadline: January 21, 2011

 

The Metcalf Institute 13th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists is a hands-on introduction to research methods, data analysis, translation of scientific research, and integration of science and policy. The 2011 workshop, Coastal Impacts: One Year of Research on he Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, will be held at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, June 12-17, and will explore the state of the science and methods used to assess the impacts of a major deep water oil spill. Fellows will gain a better understanding of environmental science research methods, cultivate scientific resources and sharpen their reporting skills through daily fieldwork and labs.

 

The Annual Science Workshop Fellowship includes room, board, tuition and some travel support. Applications must be postmarked by January 21, 2011. For additional Annual Science Workshop information, call 401-874-6211 or email fellowships@metcalfinstitute.org.

Details about eligibility and the applications for both programs can be downloaded at www.metcalfinstitute.org.

Quick links:

Eligibility and

Applications

Frequently

Asked Questions

-- Kat Anderson Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting URI Graduate School of Oceanography Narragansett Bay Campus 218 South Ferry Road Narragansett, RI  02882

Email: kat@gso.uri.edu

Office: 401.874.6009 Fax:  401.874.6486

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REMINDER – Tax Q&A with CPA Jason Stallcup, Jan 20, Sandbox Suites, Union Square, SF, 6:30pm

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Hey all. Just a reminder that CPA Jason Stallcup is giving his annual tax talk this THURSDAY, Jan 20 at Sandbox Suites in Union Square. It's intended for freelancers and other independents and he has endless knowledge (and patience for all questions) about the crazy rules that apply to us. Don't miss it!

-Mia

http://www.meetup.com/SF-Coworking/calendar/15960725/

Tax Tips for the Self-Employed

Location

Sandbox Suites Union Sq

567 Sutter St.

San Francisco, CA 94102
415-762-0093

How to find us
"Top floor"

Price

$10.00 per person
refund policy

Sandbox Suites is bringing back the San Francisco superstar CPA Jason Stallcup for another round of tax talk with great tips and updated information on new tax law changes for the self-employed. Jason is great about answering everyone's questions and giving hot tips, so this is not-to-be-missed!

He'll also discuss:

  • New tax law changes: treatment of health insurance premiums and lowered self-employment tax
  • Documentation: what you need to keep for your records
  • Entity options: should you create an LLC or Corporation
  • Discussion of common deductions: Home office, auto expenses, travel, meals, etc.

Speaker
Jason Stallcup is a CPA with an entrepreneurial background focusing on the self-employed and small-to-medium sized businesses. His expertise lies in tax preparation for all entity types and accounting services for businesses. Check him out at http://www.jasoncpa.c….

Schedule
6:30-7 Refreshments & networking
7-8:30 Talk and Q&A
8:30-9 Networking

Please note this event takes place at Sandbox Suites Union Sq!

Tickets are $10 online, $15 at the door; free for Sandbox members – learn how to become a member

Freelance Cafe West

new FC member seeks audio recorder advice

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Hey folks. An unusual request from a new FC member, but one I'm happy to oblige. This from Will Evans:

My wife and I are freelance reporters in the Bay Area, print mostly (I've worked at the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Sacramento Bee) and some radio. We're having trouble with our audio equipment at the moment, and wondered if anyone on your list has a Marantz PMD 620. That's what we have and we're trying to find out if there's anything wrong with it. An editor for a piece we're working on says the sound is bad but we can't figure out what it is – whether it's normal background hiss from a 620 or something else. We would like to get in touch with someone in the bay area that has a PMD620, so we can compare ours and theirs and see if ours has some kind of problem.

Also, if people have advice for what kind of mic to use with that recorder, that would be great too. We're using an RE50b, and we're confused why that combo isn't working out so well since that's what NPR has its reporters use. [NOTE: I suggested that the mic might not put out a strong enough signal to overcome the natural hum of the 620, but if this is what they use at NPR then I'm not sure. I use a 660. I also suggested they take it to Leo's Pro Audio and check out transom.org.]

So, this kind of thing is exactly what Freelance Cafe was created for. If you think you can help, please contact Will Evans <willevans4@gmail.com>. You can also post a comment on freelancecafe.org or our Facebook page.

Thanks all!
Best,
Mia