Pulitzer Questions

Steve Sapienza:

• When did your love of human exploration first begin
• What has drawn you to focus on more global issues rather than domestic 
• What did it mean to you and your career to win multiple CINE Golden Eagles
• Where did the inspiration for Live Hope Love come from
• What was it like to work with heavyweights like Fareed Zakaria
• Did your time spent at Azimuth media allow you to hone your skills as an eventual multiple award winning producer

Micah Fink:

• When did you first realize you wanted to mainly profile environmental changes and issues
• What was it like to produce for former Vice President Al Gore
• Where did the idea for Common Good Productions stem from 
• Do you believe your previous affiliations have given you a diverse style when approaching new projects
• Has your numerous awards and honors in the past allowed you to branch out a bit more with your content than you would have otherwise  
• What is the one common element in all of your films that you want the viewer to come away with

Pulitzer Questions

Steve Sapienza

1. How much preliminary work goes in to choosing a subject and location?
2. What draws you to topic you want to cover and do you purposely choose variety of locations and subjects?
3. How does your equipment change depending on location?

Micah Fink

1. How do you shed new light on a commonly reported issue?
2. Is it difficult to get your subjects to open up when talking about sensitive issues?
3. Whats the most powerful image you've ever captured?

Pulitzer Questions

Steve Sapienza

1. How did you get started in your field of work? What interested you?

2. Which project touched you the most?

3. What does the future hold for you? Whats your next project?


Micah Fink

1. What interests you most about environmental issues?

2. What do you want people to know about environmental issues?

3. If you could partner up with any other producer who would it be and why?

Jeneva Taylor



 How long did you go to school for filming before you became successful?
What inspired you to do documentary films instead of regular shows or movies?
What are the advantages of doing documentaries instead of commercial films?


For Steve Sapienza:
1. Have more people gotten involved since you have broaden the issue to a larger audience?
2. What made you want to address such a serious issue like HIV since this is a subject most people try to ignore?
3.How did making experience affect your perception after leaving Jamaica?
4. how did you go about finding the poems on your website, are they from those how are suffering with HIV?
5.Has religion and hope kept their environment positive?


For Micah Fink:
1. Did you come across confrontation addressing gay rights in Jamaica?
2. Are there any laws being passed now to help stop the violence done on homosexuals?
3. for the climate changes, was it dangerous capturing footage of floods and storms?
4.How are families evacuating from these areas where roads are flooded are there helicopters or are they stranded?

Pulitzer Questions

Micah Fink:

1.      Out of all the things to choose from what made you to deiced to focus on environmental issues?   

2. What are the current effects on global warming today?

3. What is the new teacher survival series about?    

Steve Sapienza

1. Why do Children in Sierra Leone become soldiers at such young ages? 

2. What kind of stories do you contribute to the PBS news hour?

3. What kind of stories did you shoot and produced for broadcast television and online distribution for over 15 years?  

Pulitzer Questions

Steve Sapienza
1. Where was your favorite location to film?
2. How do you decide that you want to film this particular issue?
3. How did you find out about the status of Haitians in DR?

Micah Fink
1. What's your favorite type of documentary
2.Why did you get into the field?
3. Whats your favorite documentary of all time?

Pulitzer Questions

Steven Sapienza

1. How do you decide which projects you want to work on?

2. Do you feel that there needs to be more public discussion on the issues presented in the projects you have worked on?

3. Has there been a personal impact from working on these projects which depict people in such encumbering circumstances?

Mica Fink

1. What have you learned about climate change and the future of our society from working on the "Cost Of Carbon" series?

2."24 Hours of Reality" used twitter and other social media as a tool for spreading the message of climate change. How large of an impact have you witnessed social media have on journalism?

3. Corporations dumping toxic waste is something that occurs daily around the world. Why do you think there isn't more coverage on this issue?

For Both

1. Why does the mainstream media choose not to provide coverage on important issues such as these?

2. Are you content with the way mainstream media covers stories or are you more supportive of alternative media sources?

PULITZER CENTER CAMPUS CONSORTIUM VISIT ASSIGNMENT: DUE 11/21/13

1) Check out the links and work of the two journalists from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting who will be in class with us on Thursday:

n  *Award-winning news and documentary producer Steve Sapienza

n  *Award-winning producer, director and writer Micah Fink

2) Come up with at least 3 questions for each of them and be prepared to ask them on Thursday: a good question will relate directly to their work. Apply what we've learned about interviewing to your questions.

 
3) Post a blog entry with your questions by Thursday's class meeting. USE THIS LABEL: PULITZER QUESTIONS


4) Come prepared and ready to be engaged. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY