This past Friday, 2007.08.24, the staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer said goodbye to Lou Yi, a journalist from Beijing, China. She reports for Caijing Magazine, the second most read magazine publication in China, after Chinese Vogue. While in the U.S. on a 5 month fellowship, she spent time working with different desks at the paper, writing articles, and learning to create videos for use online. When she returns to China, she will be the assistant editor for Web at her publication.
During her time in Philadelphia, she became the first online video journalist for a newspaper or magazine in China, and although she is still learning some of the technical skills behind the medium, her videos demonstrate her knack for linear storytelling.
She has written multiple articles (in English) for Caijing Magazine about journalism at the Inky, especially about our online process. I had the pleasure of being quoted and interviewed by her.
Before she left, she completed several video interviews with key people at our paper. This video acts as a summation of what she learned:
Her enthusiasm is going to be greatly missed at the Inky, but she has promised to keep in touch, and will update her blog.
