http://aliceinradioland.org journalism by pauline bartolone Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:49:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been on the road with a Consumer Reports Health project for more than seven weeks. We've filmed almost every day, and I've kept up with the video production as best as I could. As it write this blog, there are 49 videos on the Cover America Tour website! Of those ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/07/23/the-man-cats-follow/ The following post first appeared on the Cover America Tour website, the Consumer Reports Health project I'm producing video for. ELKHART, Indiana - The kids are on state-assisted medical benefits, and her husband’s fully covered through his job. Jessica, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom, is the only one in this Elkhart, ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/06/30/when-faced-with-surgery-being-crafty-wont-cut-it/ In one of the four florescent-lit exam rooms of the nation's oldest free clinic, Sister Mary Ellen Howard told the Cover America Tour producers about a poll she gave the dozens of uninsured patients that shuffle through Cabrini medical facilities every month. The poll asked them what they would do ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/06/20/a-systematic-38-special-for-some-health-care-consumers/ That's the question that Peter in Carbondale had to ask himself, within just a few hours of an accident he had chopping wood. The small businessman can't afford health insurance, and knew that the life-flight needed to reattach his thumb would cost him in the tens of thousands. Watch his ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/06/16/your-house-or-your-thumb/ It's been on the road less than two-weeks, but the vehicle you see in the background already has a couple nicknames. "Aqua Box" is my favorite, coined by my co-worker Meg's five year-old nephew, Kyle. Whatever you want to call it, it's the class "C" RV I'm living in ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/06/08/my-summer-home-comes-with-wheels/ The sound of a metal bat hitting concrete is constant on Sunday in Brooklyn's McCarren park. On the first sunny weekend of the Greenpoint Neighborhood softball season, dozens gathered to play a little ball. Some have been coming since 1971, dressed in sweatpants and jerseys. But in recent years, some ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/06/07/williamsburg-hasidim-play-ball-with-heart/ This year's International Landmine Awareness Day was especially significant to Colombians. In 2007, the South American country reported the highest number of mine and explosive remnants of war casualties in the world. On April 4th, Colombia's major weekly paper, Semana, published part of my documentary web project, Remnants of ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/04/10/remnants-of-war-published-in-colombias-semana/ It's over - my three-month production gig at National Public Radio's The Bryant Park Project. It came and went like a storm. I barely remember the day-to-day, but my web traces say it was productive. Here's a little round up of the multimedia moments: My first week was the holiday break, when ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/03/24/my-stint-at-the-bryant-park-project-in-moving-pictures/ I was put up to it, I swear. Right before I moved to New York, my video producer friend Charlotte Buchen asked me to be the on-camera reporter for a Current TV piece on 'eye gazing' parties. Basically it's like speed dating, except the flirting happens non-verbally. Rules are simple: Lock ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/03/08/rate-my-flirting-skills/ For those of you who haven't heard, I kind of suddenly picked up and moved to New York City about a month ago. I took a production job with NPR's new web-focused morning talk show, The Bryant Park Project. That means I won't be too active on my personal blog, ... http://aliceinradioland.org/2008/01/27/bye-bye-berkeley/