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 “I believe people travel for one of two reasons. They’re either looking for something or running away from something. Oftentimes, travel ends up being a combination of the two. When I travel, I find myself learning lessons I didn’t…
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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 ’23STRONG LANGUAGE IS QUOTED “Being a black woman on this campus has sucked for so long.” 25-year-old…
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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- A news-style featurette profile on the University of Kansas’ Feature Twirler, 2023 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 baton twirler in the marching band is a picture of grace, elegance, and beauty, carrying on…
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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 