Answer to IE Application for Master's in Visual Media Question: Show us an activity you enjoy doing. Tell us how you think it contributes to your personal and professional development

1. +Shirin Ghaffary

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 Question: Show us an activity you enjoy doing. Tell us how
you think it contributes to your personal and professional
development
Answer: Telling stories
Mediums:
• Photo
• Video
• Journalistic writing

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Work Examples: Photo
Published over 50 photographs for a newspaper with 42,000
daily readers and a circulation of 10,000

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Photo Samples
Front page photo and story on son of two women became the first same-
sex couple to legally marry in the state of California in 2013.

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Photo Samples: Photojournalistic
Click here for more work

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Work Examples: Video
 TC Cribs, Producer of a popular tv show on widely read online
blog TechCrunch

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Journalistic Work Also Published in

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Work Examples: Digital Journalism
 Travel Blogging:
Italy, Spain, Morocco, Germany, England, Taiwan
http://shirintravels.wordpress.com/

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Work Example: Digital Journalism
Wall Street Journal:
Digital Strategy Intern
Designed a protoype for new
digital products including
iphone + ipad
app, website, magazine, etc.

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How has this led to my professional
development?
 Wall Street Journal: digital media consulting intern.
 Executive News Editor: The Daily Californian
 News Intern: San Francisco Chronicle