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Dec. 5, 2008, 10:33 a.m.

Mara Schiavocampo on being a multimedia journalist

Continuing our series of videos from the Nieman future-of-journalism panel, here’s four minutes with Mara Schiavocampo, a multimedia journalist for the NBC Nightly News.

Joshua Benton is the senior writer and former director of Nieman Lab. You can reach him via email (joshua_benton@harvard.edu) or Twitter DM (@jbenton).
POSTED     Dec. 5, 2008, 10:33 a.m.
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