Iraqis who work as translators for U.S. troops are often targeted and lead dual lives.
Carrie Ching
Independent Multimedia Producer
Carrie Ching is an award-winning, independent multimedia journalist and producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For six years, she led digital storytelling projects at the Center for Investigative Reporting as senior multimedia producer. Her multimedia reports have been featured by NPR.org, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Grist, Time.com, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, KQED, PBS NewsHour, Salon.com, Mother Jones, Public Radio International, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review and many other publications. Her specialty is crafting digital narratives and exploring ways to use video, audio, photography, animation and interactive graphics to push the boundaries of storytelling on the Web, tablets and mobile. Her work has been honored with awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Best of the West, the Online News Association, Scripps Howard, The Gracies, and was part of the entry in a Pulitzer-finalist project. Prior to her time at CIR she was a magazine and book editor, video journalist, newspaper reporter and TV comedy scriptwriter. She was on the 2010 Eddie Adams Workshop faculty as a multimedia producer working with MediaStorm to teach digital storytelling techniques to photojournalists. She completed a master’s degree in journalism at UC Berkeley in 2005.
Presidential gunslingers
A slick video from GOOD magazine sums up the campaign fundraising race.
Webby awards recognize the best online journalism
Hometown Baghdad, MediaStorm, and FRONTLINE/World win for best web news.
Global warnings—from 50 years ago
A 1958 educational film warns about burning fossil fuels and climate change.
Are secrets necessary for our national security?
A new documentary explores who should have access to government data and why.
Need WMDs? Inquire within.
A promo video from A.Q. Khan’s lab says it can launch a nuke “on a week’s notice.”
A.Q. Khan’s Nuclear Ad
To help spread the word about his laboratory’s ability to produce nuclear weapons, Pakistani engineer A.Q. Khan produced a marketing video that he sent to potential clients around the world. Police from South Africa’s Crimes Against the State division discovered the video when they raided a small factory on the outskirts of Johannesberg called Tradefin […]
That song is driving me crazy
Soldiers in Iraq use Metallica and the Meow Mix jingle as “no-touch” torture.
The woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib
A New Yorker profile of soldier Sabrina Harman captures the surreal lunacy of war.
Bearing witness
A multimedia feature by Reuters and MediaStorm documents 5 years of the Iraq war.