The Forgotten People: Starting over in America, is a stunning and moving multimedia presentation by Dai Sugano and the Mercury News.
The narrated slide show, in four chapters, tells the story of a Hmong family and their journey from a Laotian refugee camp to a new life in Fresno, California. By itself, the story is compelling and inspiring. What makes it even richer is a four-minute Photographer’s Journal, in which Sugano speaks about what the story means to him.
That’s something a number of newspapers are doing with their online offerings — removing the virtual anonymity of their journalists and allowing them to speak personally about their work. It’s welcome and should be a regular feature of journalism.
(I found this sterling piece of journalism through Dennis Dunleavy’s The Big Picture?)
TAGS: PHOTOJOURNALISM, MULTIMEDIA
