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Picturing Aid in Haiti: Reflections on the Making of a Work of Graphic Reportage

This research-creation PhD thesis contributes to recent debates about what journalism could (or should) be in today's fast-changing media landscape by focusing on graphic reportage, a journalistic approach that relies on the drawn medium of comics. In order to assess how working in this drawn form might affect the practices that journalists use in their work, I reflect critically on my process of making Picturing Aid in Haiti, a work of graphic reportage about humanitarian interventions in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

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Read more about the article Covering the Haiti Earthquake Of 2010: How Journalists used Technology to Capture the conditions of Haiti in the Aftermath

Covering the Haiti Earthquake Of 2010: How Journalists used Technology to Capture the conditions of Haiti in the Aftermath

For decades, Haiti has been repeatedly troubled by devastation and disasters that pull at the heartstrings of the international community. In recent history, Haiti struggled under a military dictatorship in the 1980 and 90s, faced numerous hurricanes, and weathered destructive tropical storms.

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