Photographer Ron Haviv is doing great work from Haiti in the run-up to elections in that benighted country, through the blog Haiti Elections: The Struggle for Stability, published by the Washington Post.
Haviv is providing more than just photographs. His posts include reporting from the neighbourhoods of the capital as well as, so far, one slideshow with audio. He is not covering the political process: he’s covering the everyday life of those caught in one of the region’s great tragedies.
This is great journalism reflecting too new realities: the availability of blogs to structure news stories, and the ability of talented journalists to work with words, images and sounds, instead of each being the province of “specialists.”
TAGS: PHOTOJOURNALISM, BLOGGING, JOURNALISM, HAITI, RON HAVIV
