Carrie Ching
Bio
Carrie manages and produces multimedia reports for CIR projects—including California Watch, The Chauncey Bailey Project, The Civil Rights Cold Case Project, and The Price of Sex. Her multimedia reports have been featured by NPR.org, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Time.com, Fast Company, Grist, the Los Angeles Times, KQED, PBS NewsHour, Salon.com, Mother Jones, Public Radio International, and Columbia Journalism Review, among others. Carrie has been leading CIR's new media storytelling initiatives since 2007, when she came on to oversee all web and multimedia production. Her focus now is narrative multimedia storytelling and exploring ways to use new media tools—including video, audio, photography, animation, and interactive graphics—to push the boundaries of storytelling on the Web. Prior to joining CIR she was an editor at California magazine, Mutual Publishing, and AlterNet.org; creator and founding editor of WireTap magazine (AlterNet’s Webby Award-winning online youth news magazine); a reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser and stringer for several daily and weekly newspapers; a fact-checker at Mother Jones magazine; a freelance video journalist for Washingtonpost.com and Current TV; and a writer for Current TV's hosted news comedy show, Google Current (later renamed InfoMania). In 2011 she won an explanatory journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California) for the animated short she produced with reporter Sarah Terry-Cobo, "The Price of Gas." She was on the 2010 Eddie Adams Workshop faculty as a multimedia producer working with MediaStorm to teach digital storytelling techniques to photojournalism students. She completed a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2005.
