My great belief is that there’s always going to be a place for big, significant journalism, there’s always going to be a hunger for deep analysis. My strategy is going to be always looking to the future, to say “How can we protect and continue to do important journalism?”
I did a fellowship at MIT this year that was incredibly useful because I was able to get
underneath the hood of some of the new storytelling and visual storytelling techniques. One that I was attracted to was virtual reality. Right now, we’re in the middle of our first experiment with virtual reality — a film about Ebola in West Africa. There’s a transporting quality to the medium.
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[“Rape on the Night Shift”] will be the first project I’m officially going to produce. This project has been in the works for a couple of years. We started with “Rape in the Fields,” looking at disadvantaged and undocumented women and issues surrounding rape and sexual abuse. We’ve been working in collaboration with Univision, the Center for Investigative Reporting, KQED, [and] the Investigative Reporting Program, out of the University of California at Berkeley.
I really believe, more than ever, that collaborations and partnerships with other news organizations are going to be a centerpiece of my strategy going forward. You go from one news organization with one reporter to three or four news organizations with five to seven more reporters. It’s incredible the amount of journalism that happens.
FIRST LOOK “Rape on the Night Shift” premieres June 23 at 10 p.m., airing on WGBH 2 and streaming live at pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline.