Category: Documentary
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What I Learned In South Africa
A Personal Essay (Aided by the street artists of Cape Town) By: Anika Kieler August 2023 *Editor’s Note: I recognize that this work is a little long, so for a shorter version I recommend Part 2, Part 5, Part 6, and/ or Part 8. I believe people travel for one of two reasons. They’re either…
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“I fuck with me.”
Finding confidence, joy, and the courage to speak out after six years in college, Tamiah Coffee bears it all: herself, exactly the way she is. *Editor’s Note: Advanced Photojournalism Documentary Project, Prof. Eric Thomas, University of Kansas Spring ’23 “Being a black woman on this campus has sucked for so long.” 25-year-old Tamiah Reneé Coffee…
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He said, She said
Gendered Misrepresentation in the Media and How to fix it *Editor’s notes This was my Solution Project for Diversity in Media, a class where we learned about media representation and bias in coverage of different identities. The Solution Project aimed to have us confront these issues on a larger scale and address how solutions are…
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Vegetable, Mineral, No More Animal
The Story of the 60 Most- Endangered Animals and the Increasing Range of Threats Against Them *Editor’s Note: This was an assignment for Journalism 309: Data Storytelling. I compiled a 61-row/13-column dataset about the 60-most endangered animals and the threats against them. Using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Tableau, I was able to transform and…
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Personality Profile
*Editor’s Note- This was an assignment for Journalism 304: Media Writing for Audiences. Our task was to interview someone we didn’t know and put together a complete profile for them. Katelyn Johildebrand. While you may not know her name, you’ve definitely seen her work. Under dazzling lights, in the roar of the crowd, the feature…
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Argumentative Analysis- Globalization
*Editor’s Note: To write this piece I utilized skills like text analysis, hedging, and evaluating resource credibility to debate if globalization is a hindrence or benifit to the people of developing countries. I did this while developing a global perspective that aknowledges the controversy around globalization in a contemporary context. This is part of my…
The Anthology of a Curio 