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American Documentary to develop new innovations in digital
storytelling through its award-winning PBS series, POV
NEW YORK, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American
Documentary, Inc. (AmDoc) today announced a plan to further expand its
nonfiction series, POV, beyond television into the digital space with
new innovations in storytelling. With $250,000 from the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation, POV will increase its digital
co-productions, hire a technology fellow and continue its successful
nonfiction media lab, POV Hackathon.
Since the 1990s, PBS's award-winning nonfiction broadcast series POV
(a cinema term for "point of view") has built a reputation for digital
innovation. POV built PBS's first program website and created PBS's
first interactive storytelling project, the Webby Award-winning "POV's
Borders"; POV has also continually created companion film websites and
apps. Recently, POV and The New York Times announced a collaboration
to premiere new documentaries on the organizations' websites. The
first film, "The Men of Atalissa," produced by The New York Times, can
be seen on pbs.org/pov and www.nytimes.com.
Building on POV's digital track record, $75,000 of the Knight
Foundation funding will go to two promising media projects that push
the boundaries of nonfiction media in the digital age. The projects
will receive technical and creative support to take them from idea to
prototype to a finished product.
With the balance of the support, POV will offer a yearlong fellowship
to a technologist and continue its nonfiction media hackathon labs.
The chosen fellow will develop digital and mobile tools for nonfiction
media makers. Since 2012, the POV Hackathon labs have gathered media
makers and technologists to collaborate and develop new innovations in
documentary for the Web. In 2014, POV will organize two labs in New
York and for the first time hold a lab in Los Angeles.
"While newsrooms have seen significant pick up in media innovation in
recent years there is a need for more digital breakthroughs in the
television and broadcast arena; POV is helping fill this gap by
innovating with new technologies across multiple media platforms,"
said Michael Maness, Knight Foundation vice president of journalism
and media innovation. "Videos and documentaries have a great power to
engage the public and capture in-depth stories. We can strengthen
their reach by supporting innovation in this area."
"We're excited that Knight is supporting digital media across the
spectrum, from the experimentation that comes out of POV Hackathon to
creating new works that forward the field of digital journalism and
Web documentary," said Cynthia López, POV co-executive producer. "As
POV continues exploring what's possible, we will also see how
nonfiction media makers can find new ways to use mobile platforms for
storytelling and engagement."
POV is now seeking projects for digital co-production at
pov.org/submit, and applications are now being accepted for the POV
Digital Technologist Fellowship at pov.org/jobs.
For the complete press release,
visit www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom/2014/pov-knight-foundation-digital-storytelling-innovation-grant.php.
SOURCE American Documentary
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/CONTACT: POV Communications: 212-989-7425. Alternate contact: 206-790-8697; Cathy Fisher, cfisher@pov.org; Amanda Nguyen, anguyen@pov.org; POV online pressroom: www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom; Anusha Alikhan, Director of Communications, Knight Foundation, 305-908-2677, media@knightfoundation.org
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/Web Site: http://www.pov.org
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