Blue Chalk, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Magnum Foundation. Day 2

We started off the day at Blue Chalk Media in Dumbo and met with Pam Huling and Greg Moyer who showed us a couple short video and multimedia pieces. Pam explained the different stages of non-fiction: journalism, education, social impact, branded content, promotional advertising, and entertainment. Blue Chalk's "sweet spot" is in social impact and branded content. This essentially means that they produce work that focuses on social issues and sometimes is sponsored by a brand that has their product in the video or name at the beginning/end. She explained that that's becoming the norm for journalism these days. Huling described Blue Chalk as "good people working together to make the best products for good companies." 

After that we went to Bloomberg Businessweek and talked with Clinton Cargill who is the Director of Photography for the photo division. The building was amazing and beautiful and they served us incredible food, but besides that I was amazed with the content that they have been producing over the years. I feel like I had preconceived notions of what Bloomberg Businessweek was going to be like and it was nothing at all like I thought. It was fun and casual and everyone there was young and fresh with great ideas and my whole class was talking about how much we loved it for the next two hours. 

And then we went to Magnum Foundation, which, as an aspiring documentary photographer was really inspiring. We met with an RIT alum, Alexis Lambrou, who gave me all kinds of photographers to look up for inspiration. We talked about the fellowship for recent grads.

I have yet to go to a place that I haven't fallen in love with. I am so lucky to be able to go to all of these incredible places and meet incredible people in NYC that people wait months, if not years, to talk to. I'm also really lucky I'm staying with two New York Times employees who know almost everyone in the business.