Produced with Lucas Powers, Alexandra Minzlaff, and Dan McKinney.
CUT – Global Costs of Illegal Logging was featured on the December 20th, 2013 broadcast of CTV’s flagship primetime news show, Kevin Newman Live.
CUT represents a year-long examination into the environmental and social costs of the global logging industry. The site is highly interactive, and features a typical apartment filled with various wood products. Clicking on any of the products launches a video segment, showcasing stories of where that wood came from, and an in-depth report on the environmental and social costs of illegal logging.
Newman invited UBC Journalism graduate Lucas Powers, who worked on the project, to discuss the content of the site and new developments in the story.
CUT – Global Costs of Illegal Logging was an international reporting project with the UBC Global Reporting Program and the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada–exposing the $30 billion trade in illegal wood. Our work won a 2013 Canadian Online Publishing Award for video and multimedia reporting and won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, from the Radio, Television and Digital News Association.
CUT was made possible with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It was produced in partnership with the Liu Institute for Global Studies, the Centre for Digital Media and International University in Moscow
CUT – Global Costs of Illegal Logging was featured on the December 20th, 2013 broadcast of CTV’s flagship primetime news show, Kevin Newman Live.
CUT represents a year-long examination into the environmental and social costs of the global logging industry. The site is highly interactive, and features a typical apartment filled with various wood products. Clicking on any of the products launches a video segment, showcasing stories of where that wood came from, and an in-depth report on the environmental and social costs of illegal logging.
Newman invited UBC Journalism graduate Lucas Powers, who worked on the project, to discuss the content of the site and new developments in the story.
CUT – Global Costs of Illegal Logging was an international reporting project with the UBC Global Reporting Program and the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada–exposing the $30 billion trade in illegal wood. Our work won a 2013 Canadian Online Publishing Award for video and multimedia reporting and won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, from the Radio, Television and Digital News Association.
CUT was made possible with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It was produced in partnership with the Liu Institute for Global Studies, the Centre for Digital Media and International University in Moscow