Longtime National Geographic writer and editor , working in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, will lead a conversation about creating and integrating multiple disciplines into long-form stories at an event at the Newhouse School Sept. 22. Presented by the and departments and the Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Photography, the event will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3.
Don Belt
Belt’s presentation, “Slow Journalism: Integrating Digital into Traditional Storytelling,” is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek’s ground-breaking “” project for National Geographic. For that project, Salopek retraces on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 21,000-mile, seven-year odyssey that began in Ethiopia and ended in Tierra del Fuego. His work integrates traditional text-oriented storytelling, grounded in timeless principles of research, reporting, interviewing, writing and editing, with photos, videos, audio and other aspects of modern digital narrative.
Belt, who is now a professor of journalism at the University of Richmond, is an award-winning journalist, an acclaimed teacher and public speaker and an experienced communications strategist working on behalf of worthwhile causes and organizations. He brings a global and humanistic perspective to every project he takes on, ranging from editing the first-ever National Geographic retrospective on Islam to exploring the frontiers of journalism in the digital age.
For more information about his talk, contact Jim Shahin at 315-443-2381 or jbshahin@syr.edu.
