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The Black Rocks, Michel Tréhet
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Say âyesâ to your life. Invest in it, use it, develop it, share it, be thankful for it, and when you miss the mark â which you will do â make necessary amends. Learn as much as you can from your failures (which is about redemption and wisdom), and then get on with it. -
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Ari Shapiro: Social media as an extension of journalism itself
This week, NPR International Correspondent Ari Shapiro went on a reporting trip in Izmir and Bodrum, Turkey, covering the migration crisis. In addition to reporting the story for radio, Ariâs been  using social media to tell the story on his own Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.
Ari sent us this note earlier this week and we thought it was important to share with other journalists, too:
Itâs slowly been occurring to me - and this trip to Izmir really drives it home - that for me, social media has become less a promotion/branding tool or a way of sending people to my official NPR stories (though itâs still those things) and more of an extension of the journalism itself.
The reactions to the photos Iâve posted on Instagram and Facebook have been intense. Earlier this week, I posted a picture of life vests for sale outside a clothing store. One woman on Facebook said: âThatâs a sort of everyday awful I can barely process.â A commenter on a photo of a migrant whose raft sank wrote, âReporting his story puts a face on countless stories of one of the worst humanitarian tragedies in the 21st century.â These commenters donât view [these social posts] as an accessory to the reporting - they see it as another journalism platform, no different from the radio or [a news site].
Iâve realized that many of the people [following me on social media] are not following the news elsewhere. On Twitter, one person asked me, âWith its economic issues, why Greece?â Someone else said, âWow! The fact that Greece is a preferred alternative highlight their plight.â Clearly, these people have not heard news reports for the last year that tens of thousands of people are going to Greece. But, theyâre getting it through Twitter [and other social networks].
Finally, when I got here I was in need of an interpreter whoâs fluent in Arabic and English. Iâd tried various contacts with no luck. After I posted one Instagram photo from Izmir, someone commented, âYouâre in my hometown and I am not there to come across you. Oh, who am I? Just a big fan.â I replied, âDo you know any local Arabic/English speakers who I could hire to work with me for a few days?â She didnât, but a photojournalist who follows me on Instagram did. I ended up working with a friend of hers who lives here in Izmir.
This was sort of an âaha!â social media moment Iâve experienced over the last few days. I thought it was worth sharing.
- Ari.
Ariâs note drives home an important point weâve been making on the Social Media Desk: Social Media is an extension of journalism. Itâs a tool all journalists can use to tell stories and reach audiences that may not already be connected with your news organization.
At 12 p.m. EST this Friday, Ari and Joanna Kakissis will be hosting a Q&A on NPRâs Facebook page about the ongoing migration crisis. Joanna Kakissis, NPRâs International Correspondent in Greece who has written extensively about migration.
"They call me Cat Man. Iâve normally got about three or four kittens in my jacket with me. Thereâs this empty lot in Brooklyn where this one cat keeps pumping out ten kittens every three months. She just wonât stop. Sheâs some sort of super cat. I carry them around and sell them for about $40 apiece."
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âFatâ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is âfatâ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is âfatâ worse than âvindictiveâ, âjealousâ, âshallowâ, âvainâ, âboringâ or âcruelâ? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? Iâm not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain⊠I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadnât seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? âYouâve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!â âWell,â I said, slightly nonplussed, âthe last time you saw me Iâd just had a baby.â What I felt like saying was, âIâve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Arenât either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?â But no â my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate! Iâve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I donât want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; Iâd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny â a thousand things, before âthinâ. And frankly, Iâd rather they didnât give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.
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