Rana Sweis

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Virtual Reality: A New Way to Tell Stories

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"Until now, V.R. has been seen mostly as a revolutionary new platform for video games, but it has the potential to transform journalism as well. At the magazine, we first began experimenting with the technology in April, when we shot a short film with the V.R. production studio Vrse about the making of our "Walking New York" cover. We didn't promote this project at the time, but we were happy enough with the results to begin making plans for the film that we're releasing now, also a collaboration with Vrse: a 10-minute journey through the lives of three different children who have been driven from their homes by war."

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“You are worth being paid for it”

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A very nice editor at Huffington Post contacted me yesterday, and asked me if I would be willing to grant permission for the site to republish my post about the seven things I did to reboot my life.

Huffington Post has a lot of views, and reaches a pretty big audience, and that post is something I’d love to share with more people, so I told the editor that I was intrigued, and asked what they pay contributors.

Well, it turns out that, “Unfortunately, we’re unable to financially compensate our bloggers at this time. Most bloggers find value in the unique platform and reach our site provides, but we completely understand if that makes blogging with us impossible.”

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