Bring It On
A trio of young gun journalists shared their insight, experience and enthusiasm with City College of San Francisco Online Journalism students on April 15. All three have blazed trails through journalism's new high tech frontier to jobs at leading news organizations.
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Courtesy of Google Images |
Nathan Olivarez-Giles is currently a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. “I am leading the push at the Journal to develop a new type of journalism” he said. Olivarez-Giles is pushing the boundaries and tearing down the distinct borders that once divided print and other communication media. Ever since high school he’s been fascinated with technology. Now he combines writing, photography, video and technology in innovative ways to tell any story that needs to be told.
Olivarez-Giles advice was simple, “Soak up and
learn as much as possible from every opportunity that you can.” He holds an
entrepreneurial spirit at heart and he is ever willing to hop in the saddle to new
tech frontiers.
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| Brian X. Chen, courtesy of Google Images |
He uses Twitter to share analysis, point to good stories,
and to share comments with his tech heavy network.
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| Mark Milian Courtesy of Google Images |
Mark Milian was focused on Silicon Valley like a California gold-rush prospector. He thought he could bring something new to tech world. Today he writes for Bloomberg News about how technology is affecting remote cultures.
“Radio, TV and digital video is the new thing that advertisers
will pay top dollar for,” Milian said. “We’re still figuring out the best
practices.”
Gold in the Hills
All three found tech to be the new frontier to practice a time-honored craft of telling good stories. They embraced technology and in doing so stuck the mother lode.
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| Courtesy of Google Images |
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