A famous mojo
Kevin Sites is possibly the world's most famous mojo. As an embedded reporter in Iraq in 2004 he reported the shooting dead of a wounded Iraqi in a Mosque by an American soldier.In 2005 he joined Yahoo as their first news correspondent. He hired a small staff and took $10,000 backpack full of equipment.
He chose to visit every country with an armed conflict within a year. Exhaustion set in because of the pressure he was under as a mojo. He admitted that the onus on him to file copy, video and stills affected the quality of his output.
His argument was that weaknesses in one medium on one day was made up by strengths in another on another day. Multimedia reporting "offers a chance to do better journalism by giving reporters the tools to tell stories in the most appropriate medium". Quinn 2004
Sites says he used:
words for ideas and issues
videos for movement
stills for faces
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