This short piece was produced by Natasha Watts and Cassandra Erskine for the Side by Side Project and the Appalachian Media Institute.
Category: Portfolio
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Photography Sample
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Creative Voices: Digital Storytelling for Global Learning
Shared from the Asia Society: Youth today are looking for opportunities to connect with and participate in the wider world. The enormous popularity of social media and networking websites demonstrates that young people are not only consuming content but also sharing their opinions, ideas, and actions with the world. This exchange often already occurs beyond...
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Kentucky Town Grapples with Oxycontin Addiction
Played on NPR’s Morning Edition on October 10, 2007 Imagine you are sitting in a room with everyone you love: your elementary school teachers, neighbors, childhood friends. And then you leave the room and find out that every single one of those people is an addict. That’s how I felt when I returned home after...
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Growing Up in a Coal Town: Stay Home or Leave?
Played on NPR’s Morning Edition – January 10, 2006 Commentator Natasha Watts is from the third generation of a coal mining family in Kentucky. The recent deaths of miners at the Sago Mine in West Virginia mirrored a similar mining accident in her home town decades ago, and reminds her of her own dilemma: whether...