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Shirin Ghaffary Applicant for Master’s in Visual Media at
IE School of Communication
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Essay Prompt
• Show us an activity you enjoy
doing. Tell us how you think it
contributes to your personal
and professional development.
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Answer: Telling stories
Mediums:
• Photo
• Video
• Journalistic writing
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Telling Stories: Photography
Published over 50 photographs for a newspaper with 42,000
daily readers and a circulation of 10,000
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Examples of photography
Front-page story photo about the son of two women became the
first same-sex couple to legally marry in the state of California in
2013.
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Photo Portfolio SamplesScene from the play,
“Directions” at UC
Berkeley.
Photo of eccentric,
abandoned junk yard in
the heart of wine-country
of Napa, California.
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Photo Samples - continued
Landscape of San Francisco Bay Area in California at night
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Photo Samples - continued
Front-cover photo from a student protest at UC Berkeley, published
in Daily Californian 2010.
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Work Examples: Video• Producer of a popular tv show on technology
news website, TechCrunch called “TC Cribs”– Clip below
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Work also published in the
pages of:
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Work Examples: Digital
Journalism• Travel Blogging
– Italy, Spain, Morocco, Germany,
England,
Taiwan.http://shirintravels.wordpress.com
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More Examples: Travel Blogging
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Work Example: Digital Journalism
Wall Street Journal:
Digital Strategy Intern
Designed a protoype for
new digital products
including iphone + ipad
app, website, magazine
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Conclusion
Photography – Captured a range of
visual stories from breaking news such as
protests to profiles of artists through
portraits
The activities I enjoy have helped me become a professional visual journalist
Videography – Learned how to
produce, film, and edit an online tv
show which attracted viewers and
advertisers.
Digital Journalism – Used extensive
knowledge of journalism articles to come up
with an iPhone app for the Wall Street
Journal.