It's All Journalism

BJ Koubaroulis was writing about high school sports for The Washington Post when he saw “writing on the wallâ€? about the newspaper industry and decided to make a change. He put down his pen â€" at least for a little bit â€" and picked up a video camera.

“I got my first camera off of craigslist. Fifty bucks,� said Koubaroulis, who ended up doing video pieces on high school sports for The Post. Eventually, he founded Synthesis Multimedia Productions, a private video production and digital strategy company, in Northern Virginia 4-1/2 years ago.

“In this digital day and age, when all of your resources are online to help you start a company and to take those steps. The business model, and starting the business, was not actually as hard,� he said.

Koubaroulis talked to It's All Journalism producers Michael O'Connell and Julia O'Donoghue about starting his own business and his new venture, DMVSTREAM.com, which streams high school sports.

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Bringing backpack journalism to high school sports

Jaclyn Schiff is the executive producer and host of Pangea, a podcast where she talks to media professionals about global health issues. She's  also the communications director for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Over the course of two weeks this summer, she’ll be conducting interviews and writing about how mobile phones are being used in creative and efficient ways to promote health as part of the International Reporting Project.

“I want to take a closer look at how it’s been used in Zambia," she said. "I’m interested in the perspective of the patients â€" those who actually use mobile health. What’s it like for them? Is anything lost or gained by relying on mobile technology?â€?

Schiff talks to It's All Journalism Producers Michael O'Connell and Julia O'Donoghue about her hopes for the trip and her thoughts about audio storytelling via podcasting.

Podcaster covers global health issues firsthand in Zambia

On April 15, when most spectators were running away from the blasts at the Boston Marathon finish line, Alex Weaver was rushing toward it. Weaver covered the marathon bombing and its aftermath as a staff writer for BostInno, an online publication devoted to the tech industry, lifestyle issues and local news in the Boston area.

Sorting through the morass of misinformation and reporting the facts of the Boston bombing.

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Data journalist uses applications to tell stories.

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