{"id":6666,"date":"2018-12-05T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harrington.uri.edu\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2018-12-05T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:34:34","slug":"jaacks-joins-journalism-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/faculty-profile\/2018\/12\/05\/jaacks-joins-journalism-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Multimedia expert joins journalism department"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Delaney LePage<\/p>\n

\"\"The Harrington School has a new face in the journalism department: Jason Jaacks, assistant professor of multimedia journalism. Jaacks received his master\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and his bachelor\u2019s degree in documentary studies from the College of Santa Fe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jaacks comes to the Harrington School with an extensive background in filmmaking, photography, and multimedia journalism. He has produced numerous independent films and digital shorts, photographed for a number of magazines such as Saveur, and Fly Fish Journal, and most recently, directed a one-hour television special for National Geographic WILD about the world\u2019s largest carnivorous bat species. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am really passionate about the work I do,\u201d Jaacks said. \u201cThe opportunity to work with students to develop their own passions in both the topics and methods they tell stories in is an exciting thing to be able to do and allows me to form future collaborators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jaacks\u2019 work focuses heavily on storytelling, particularly on social and environmental issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGood stories are good stories,\u201d Jaacks said. \u201cI have focused a lot on environmental stories because I grew up in the Intermountain West, and that\u2019s what felt natural. I\u2019ve always been fascinated with the natural world and the ecosystems where we all function and work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jaacks hopes that fascination will carry over to students in his upcoming advanced reporting and writing class. In this class, he will work with a small group of students to develop a documentary about coastal resiliency in Rhode Island. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis institution, the Harrington School, and this state are a great background to tell this story,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a lot of opportunity to get students to think about those bigger topics and bigger opportunities when framing this story, and that is really exciting for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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