Lisa Pickoff-White

My masters project explores the resurgence of midnight movies. The project won the Online Journalism Small Team Student Award and the Wired Excellence in New Media Award. It features more than 26 minutes of fully produced video and 3,000 words. I produced and shot the entire project myself over nine months.

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I created an interactive flash game for The Chronicle/SFGate.com on California water usage and wrote a full page article for the paper on distribution issues. Over three months I conducted all of the reporting and did all of the shooting and production myself.

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I explored exactly how much money residents of the Bay Area were donating to Barack Obama and why through an interactive graph, data charts and videos. I was the team leader on this project and used the FEC database and Access to narrow down how much, in what amounts, when and where people donated from. I designed and coded all of the charts, reported, shot and produced video and assisted with the rest of the programming.

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Jen and Iris flew over 2,000 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, determined to become legally recognized as a married couple - even if just for a moment.

They are one of the many couples flocking to San Francisco’s City Hall in the days leading up to the vote of Proposition 8, when Californians decide whether to ban same-sex marriage. I shot video, produced and helped with the flash production as part of a team of four.

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Before the Olympics I went to Beijing for the Washington Post. With six other reporters I helped report and produce a series of stories about everyday life of Beijingers in San Francisco and back in Beijing. I designed and developed the Web project.

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Using archival images and current videos this interactive timeline explains how the Your Black Muslim Bakery developed and their legal entanglements, including the murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey. I reported and produced this timeline with Rhyen Coombs.

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Working with a team of reporters and producers I helped redesign the Chauncey Bailey Project Web site. I was a part of the design, implementation and outreach for the site.

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The Service Employees International Union, besides representing 2 million workers, is one of the most active and powerful political organizations in the nation. Beyond its own direct efforts, which are vast, the union also helps create, lead, and fund dozens of other organizations and coalitions that are influential in public policy debates and elections.

I helped report and develop Web extras for this project examining 527 organizations.

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Slain journalist Chauncey Bailey was a controversial figure in his hometown of Oakland, Ca., challenging people on his television show and in both the mainstream and ethnic press. This series of videos explores Bailey’s life through archival footage and recent interviews with his friends and colleagues. I led this project, produced and filmed with a small team.

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Before 1992, battered women in California who killed their abuser went to prison without the opportunity to show how years of abuse led to murder. In many cases, such testimony would have reduced their sentences. Since then, California law has changed and nearly 30 women have been released. These are the stories of 19 women freed since 2002.

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