Journalism, Visual Media, Active Citizenship
Nestled down a windy back road in the woodsy Pocono fringes that make up New York City’s subconscious suburbs, there stands a modest gray house, and in it, Howell Raines has a Kindle. “Have you seen these things? I love ‘em,” says Raines, “I’m convinced they’ll become a necessity for anyone researching a Ph.D.” It’s [...]
“The General and Winning the War in Helmand” is the first story I’ve written since being here. It took me about two weeks to write, due to exhaustive research into the private side of the conflict, but I think in the end it came out pretty good. Once I’ve exhausted any venue willing to publish, [...]
Initially the photodesk sent me down to Zuccotti Park to cover a story about some church in Brooklyn bringing blankets across the bridge to help support the occupiers. See, it was the edge of winter, and the police had recently swept through and taken all the generators (their purposes, though stated in terms of safety, [...]
Geoffrey Ingersoll is a freelance journalist, documentarian, writer, photographer, and Marine veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
