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Newsmotion.org

Report: Range of $100-300 per piece. 

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Newsmotion producer and photographer Lindsey Leger walked around downtown Washington DC as President Obama's Second Inauguration unfolded, and took a look at some of the iconography of the event. Check out the full photo essay and other original content at newsmotion.org, a civic media project by an array of journalists and journalist thinkers.

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After Fukushima.

Since Newsmotion's Kickstarter project ended last December, the media storytelling site has published six in-depth, feature-length articles that approach journalism from a civic perspective, exploring the ins and outs of humanity's relationship with the world.

Newsmotion's sixth published piece is written by Josh Price, who is also in the middle of producing a new documentary via Kickstarter, cpm-730, which finds him examining the community adjacent to Japan's Fukushima power plant after the nuclear meltdown.

While the film approaches the subject through the eyes of artist Shimpei Takeda, Price's piece for Newsmotion, entitled "The Children of Fukushima," chronicles the altered lives of kids growing up in the post-nuclear city, who now can only go outside for three hours a day — and only with a geiger counter in hand. 

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One Day in Khaldeya, Syria

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The Price of Work: Iraqi Women in Public and Private

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Just a few months ago, the team behind Newsmotion raised funds on Kickstarter to launch a new platform for documentary reportage. Their mission statement was to harness "the power of independent voices, technology, and collaborative storytelling to help the critical issues of our time engage new audiences and find new solutions." Very cool stuff. And now, in their most recent project update:

Today we are proud to present an original text and photo essay from photojournalist Kael Alford, who recently returned to Iraq, where she has worked on and off since the U.S. invasion in 2003. In this piece for Newsmotion, The Price of Work: Iraqi Women in Public and Private, Kael’s beautiful and intimate photos (see below) illustrate the public and private lives and struggles of working women in Iraq, and explores the role religion is playing since the American occupation ended.

It's worth the read. Check it out here.

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Gumbo Fundraiser for Newsmotion Tonight

Tuesday, 12/27, 7 pm -- be on time!

(gumbo is on first come first serve basis!)

@ University Settlement 184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

What’s Newsmotion? Newsmotion is an innovative platform for civic media, public art, and original documentary reportage. Newsmotion harnesses the power of independent voices, technology, and collaborative storytelling to focus on the critical issues of our time, engaging new audiences and finding new solutions. BUY TICKETS through KICKSTARTER HERE Come mingle with some of New York’s most innovative and passionate independent journalists, writers, artists, photographers, and documentary filmmakers — including OWS bat signal creator Mark Read, nonviolent resistance leader Srdja Popovic, artist Natalie Jeremijenko, photojournalist Alan Chin, author Julian Rubinstein, artist Marisa Jahn, writer/translator Susan Bernofsky and music by Water Water!! Admission to the event $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Making a Kickstarter pledge at this level will automatically put you on the guest list.  Harvard’s Nieman Lab calls Newsmotion: "The project of a collective of award-winning journalists and journalism thinkers,” including author and sociologist Todd Gitlin, Pulitzer Prize winner Dale Maharidge, artist and engineer Natalie Jeremijenko, writer and translator Susan Bernofsky, new media professor Nitin Sawhney, photographerAlan Chin, war correspondent Elizabeth Rubin, filmmaker Laura Poitras, writer and producer Julian Rubinstein, artist and activist Marisa Jahn, and many others. 7:00 pm — Doors open. Live music by Water Water (Todd Chandler & Jamie Reeder), accompanying a special projection by OWS bat signal creator Mark Read 7:30 — Welcome and Introduction by Newsmotion founders Julian Rubinstein & Marisa Jahn. ACTIVATE: With Pulitzer Prize winner Dale Maharidge, Serbian nonviolent resistance leader Srdja Popovic, novelist and journalist Lara Santoro, and the man behind Occupy Wall Street’s ‘bat-signal,’ Mark Read. DISPATCH: The New Republic and Foreign Policy reporter Anna Badkhen will give an update on the war in Afghanistan. MESSENGER: Natalie Jeremijenko on Newsmotion Bike Messengers: Changing where, why and how news is produced and presented -- an alpha prototype kit that transforms bikes into moving civic media. SLIDESHOW: Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, and Ground Zero: Photographs of the Egyptian Revolution, Occupy Wall Street, and the Killing of Osama, by Alan Chin. 8:00 — Alan’s famous New Orleans gumbo + Marisa’s signature apple cider martini cocktails.

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