{"id":17,"date":"2014-03-21T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T07:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-04-28T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T04:30:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-702 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020385-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"P1020385-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020385-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020385-3-620x620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020385-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020385-3-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020385-3-184x184.jpg 184w, https:\/\/djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020385-3.jpg 1491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DJ Clark first described himself as a multimedia journalist back in 1994 while single-handedly covering the British Winter Special Olympic team for TV, radio and print. He now has over 30\u00a0years experience working with media organisations across the world as a video producer, photojournalist, presenter, writer, trainer and multimedia consultant.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Hong Kong, DJ is currently Multimedia Director at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/\">China Daily Asia Pacific<\/a>, host and producer of the adventure travel show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droneandphone.com\/\">Drone &amp; Phone<\/a>, video advisor to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.network\/\">Asia News Network\u00a0<\/a>and course leader for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immj-ma.org\/\">University of Bolton<\/a> MA in Visual Design. Previously DJ was a\u00a0regular contributor to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/\">The Economist<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio\">BBC\u00a0radio<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\">National Geographic<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DJ has won numerous awards for his work throughout his career. In 2020 his\u00a0film <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WOooP6pbn50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battleground PolyU<\/a> won seven international prizes including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/collection\/digitalstorytelling\/winners\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Press Photo Interactive of the Year<\/a> and was nominated for a <a href=\"https:\/\/winners.webbyawards.com\/#\/2020\/video\/immersive-and-mixed-reality\/news\/124158\/battleground-polyu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Webby<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both as a practitioner and researcher DJ has a deep interest in visual journalism as a tool for change in the Majority World. In 2009 he completed a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/etheses.dur.ac.uk\/136\/\">PhD at the University of Durham<\/a>\u00a0that focused on the subject and has gone on to write and speak extensively on the issue. He has taught at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/acfj.ateneo.edu\/\">Asia Center for Journalism<\/a>, been\u00a0a tutor for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/\">World Press Photo<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/\">British Council<\/a>\u00a0workshops, was a co-founder\/tutor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.multimediatrain.com\/\">Multimedia Train<\/a>\u00a0and is co-host of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.multimediaweek.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multimedia Week<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehongkonghistorypodcast.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Kong History<\/a> podcasts\u00a0. In 2017 DJ was chair of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/activities\/digital-storytelling-contest\/jury\">World Press Photo Short Form Digital Story Telling jury<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Clark first described himself as a multimedia journalist back in 1994&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}