When I left Roanoke.com, photographer Jeanna Duerscherl and reporter Rob Johnson were feverishly working on a story about Brooke Smith, a 21-year-old who was diagnosed with alveolar soft part sarcoma. “Letting go, letting God” is a compelling story for several reasons. Not only does she have a rare and incurable cancer, she has also battled depression and suicidal tendencies, and witnessed her father’s unexpected death as a teenager. This woman definitely has a story to tell.
One of the great advantages to judging multimedia competitions is the periodic influx of amazing multimedia projects to my inbox. While I was recently looking through the entries for the quarterly SNDies competition, one project in particular caught my eye. To be accurate, it was actually a part of a larger project that was linked [...]