{"id":89,"date":"2016-10-28T02:23:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-10-28T02:23:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:23:55","slug":"ebola-crisis-in-liberia-individual-oriented-reporting-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/28\/ebola-crisis-in-liberia-individual-oriented-reporting-makes-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Crisis in Liberia: Individual-oriented Reporting Makes a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by April Zhou<br \/>\nphotos by Jane Yao<\/p>\n<p>Instead of reporting how Ebola affected the West, like most mainstream media, Ben C. Solomon said his reporting team focused coverage on Liberians.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109\" src=\"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/07-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Student Zheng Zhuo ask to have her photo taken with Ben Solomon. .\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/07-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/07-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/07-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Zheng Zhuo asks to have her photo taken with Ben Solomon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPeople who are in the most terrible circumstances actually have the most powerful moments of hope. I think by showing those moments, by showing this kind of strength, we can see the hope that we can make a change,\u201d said Solomon, one of the first foreign multimedia correspondents for The New York Times and who won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Ebola in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were meeting different people, we were experiencing lots of things they did,\u201d Solomon said.<\/p>\n<p>The story was difficult to tell, difficult to follow and difficult for people to watch. Solomon said they encountered physical and mental risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you do videos like these, you want them to connect, you want people to be able to feel,\u201d Solomon said, adding that the film was to build a bridge between communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by April Zhou photos by Jane Yao Instead of reporting how Ebola affected the West, like most mainstream media, Ben C. Solomon said his reporting team focused coverage on Liberians. \u201cPeople who are in the most terrible circumstances actually have the most powerful moments of hope. I think by showing those moments, by showing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}