About this project

What’s this all about?

Lost and Found is a multimedia project produced by journalism master’s students in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

We chose this theme because we experience losses and discoveries of all kinds, every day.

Students researched the area to find good stories to tell, and then they went on location over the course of a week to report and shoot.

From the homepage, you will find the students’ work: 90-second to 2-minute videos and a short text piece that complements every multimedia story. You can choose from the 50 stories by topic or by reporter.

The master’s students are majoring in the magazine-newspaper-online program and arts journalism program. They are enrolled in a six-week newswriting and reporting boot camp course in which they are learning the initial steps to becoming multiplatform journalists.

As part of the Lost and Found project, the students used Canon Vixia HF-30 video cameras. They also learned how to edit with Audacity, Final Cut Pro X and Photoshop programs.

This multimedia project is an annual collaborative effort. Professor Jon Glass, executive producer of TheNewsHouse.com, and professor Joe Blum, gave lectures and presentations to the master’s students and provided extensive technical support to the students and to the instructional assistants. Professor Glass also directed the Lost and Found site and worked with current master’s student Miriam Taylor and Newhouse professor Jeff Passetti, who together designed and programmed the website.

Also, the project’s direction is credited to Emilie Davis, coordinating professor for Team Boot Camp. Professor Davis had the original idea of an intensive one-day, video-driven experience that led to Secs in the City, published in 2010; Start Here, published in 2011; and Change in Central New York, published in 2012. This summer, the tradition of a visually driven project continued with Lost and Found.

Special thanks go to this summer’s instructional assistants: Courtney Haupt and Heather Norris. They provided valuable hands-on instruction to students about software at all stages and assisted the students as they uploaded their content to the content management system.

Thanks also to the other professors who make up Team Boot Camp for their direction as students pursued and produced their stories: Ann Hettinger, Charlie Miller and Walt Wasilewski.

Contact Us

If you have questions or feedback about this project, e-mail us at cnystories@gmail.com or contact Jon Glass at 315-443-8612.