In April of this year, The Kansas City Star was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for their groundbreaking series, "A New Slavery." The series, written by reporters Laura Bauer, Mike McGraw, and Mark Morris investigates the US' weak enforcement of human trafficking. The multi-piece series contains interviews with victims of trafficking, government officials, and other who have been affected by the crime and enforcing the laws to end it. The Kansas City Star is a subsidiary of The McClatchy Company. Congratulations to the writers of The Kansas City Star as well as Gary Pruitt, Center on Communication Leadership……
Day: May 3, 2010
‘Avatar,’ Other Hit Movies Use 3D Technology from the 1930s
Much of the financial news of late from the Hollywood studios focuses on the revenue gushers generated by recently released 3D movies, such as "Avatar," "Alice in Wonderland" and "How to Train Your Dragon." But the latest cycle of 3-D movies rely on what is really quite an old technology. No, we're not talking about such 1950's 3D classics as "Bwana Devil." Think older, much older: It turns out our grandparents enjoyed 3D movies, turned out by the major Hollywood studios… in the 1930s. Only then it was called S3D. Maybe the third time is the charm. Or maybe not:……