Mashable / Süddeutsche Zeitung
2015
Writer/Reporter/Camera Operator/Video Editor
This multimedia project was published in English and and German with Mashable and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The story describes the long lasting impact American nuclear bomb tests left on the Marshall Islands. Many of the islands are still contaminated. Now, climate change poses an additional threat.
The story was told in muliple chapters:
- The impact of nuclear testing on the atoll nation, told through a family who moved back to their contaminated homeland
- The increasing threat of climate change
- The migration caused by nuclear testing, climate change and lack of opportunity, with many Marshallese settling in small-town Arkansas
Together with my colleagues Coleen Jose and Kim Wall, I spent six weeks in the Marshall Islands.
The three of us reported the story together. I produced, filmed and edited all the video components and I wrote the German text.
You can read the English version here.
The German version is linked here.
Its design is more custom-made than in the English version and it served as a starting point for Süddeutsche Zeitung to develop their multimedia storytelling formats further.
The project was prefaced with an initial story in the Guardian about Runit Dome, a leaking nuclear waste site on Enewetak Atoll.