D J Clark Multimedia Stories
By DJ Clark
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Podcast Description
This podcast is of D J Clark's weekly video story, published on the China Daily website. The features cover a variety of subjects from in depth special reports to travel and regional events. D J Clark is a contract multimedia reporter for China Daily, Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism and Course leader on the MA International Multimedia Journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University (in collaboration with the University of Bolton, UK). He also researches and writes about visual journalism as a vehicle for social change, the subject that drives both his journalistic and academic work. DJ runs visual journalism workshops throughout the world most recently for Canon in China and the Philippines, The British Council in Croatia, Mozambique and Vietnam and World Press Photo in the Philippines and across Africa. In 2008 he gave a keynote speech at the World Press Photo Awards on the growth of Majority World Photojournalism based on a PhD he completed in 2009 at the University of Durham that focused on photojournalism as a tool for social change in the Developing World. Starting his career in 1988 D J Clark worked first as a photojournalist before moving into video journalism and later as a multimedia journalist. Over the last 23 years he has covered stories all over the world for leading newspapers, magazines, news agencies and TV stations. In 2006 he moved permanently to China where he is now based covering news throughout Asia.
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| 1 | VideoRural China: Part 8 – Investing in Health | In the eighth part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark visits the local doctors in Kengxi village who explain how the recent rural health insurance initiative have benefitted the local community. Back in 2005 medical insurance was predominantly for city dwellers, covering only about a quarter of China’s population and 80% of all the medical facilities were based in urban areas. To offset this imbalance, China set out a five-year plan to rebuild the rural medical service system by supporting the construction of county-level hospitals, grassroots medical care institutions and village clinics. They also setup a new affordable rural healthcare insurance, all in all spending 1.13 trillion yuan over the last three years according to Vice Minister of Finance Wang Jun. | 10 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoRural China: Part 7 – A Tap in Every Home | In the seventh part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark visits Shengxianzhai village where a new water system has recently been put in place. Six years ago China’s ministry of water resources estimated 300 million rural residents did not have access to safe drinking water and set about creating a plan to put a tap in every home by 2020. In this small Guangdong village Clark discovers the benefits of treated drinking water in a community that used to have to walk two kilometres to fetch water that would not make them sick. | 3 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoThe Looming Food Crisis in Asia : The Problem with Biotech Crops | This video, the fifth in a series on the looming food crisis in Asia, looks at biotechnology as one of many different solutions to increase crop yields. | 23 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoRural China: Part 6 – Spring Festival Return | In the sixth part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark travels to Hunan province, into the heart of mainland China. There he finds migrant workers returning to a small village to celebrate Chinese New year. | 22 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoRural China: Part 5 – A Road to Prosperity | In the fifth part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark talks to farmers in Jiangfushan village, Hebei where he discovers a new road, built as part of a central government push to connect villages across China, has transformed the communities fortunes. | 14 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoRural China: Part 4 – A New Education | In the fourth part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark visits a school in Fuzhou bay in Liaoning province. Perched on the rocky shoreline the village has been through some difficult times with the closure of several mines but changes fish farming has meant the villagers have found alternative forms of income. The school has also seen improvements over the past years with new investment in teacher training and classroom technology. | 7 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoRural China: Part 3 – Growing Benefits | In the third part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark travels to Xin Jia village in Jilin province where he braves minus 17 degrees Celsius temperatures to investigate changes in the village over the past 30 years. He finds the mud and straw houses have been rebuilt with modern materials and the villagers are all busy enriching in various enterprises. | 31 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoRural China: Part 2 – Snow & Mountains | In the second part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark travels to the far North East of China to visit Qingshan, a small farming community that has been transformed by the building of new ski centre. Here he wanders the freezing village main street talking to local residents to find out how life has changed since the resort was built. | 23 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoRural China: Part 1 - Introduction | Over the past three decades, China has made sustained progress in raising the standard of living of its rural population. Using China’s previous definition the number of people living below the poverty line in rural areas declined from 250 million in 1978 to 27 million in 2010. Last week the government redefined the poverty line from a net yearly income of 1,196 RMB to 2,300 RMB and in doing so added 100 million rural residents deemed poor and able to claim poverty subsidies. In this first part of a series D J Clark explains the five stages of rural development undertaken by the Chinese government in the last 30 years. | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoWireless Rural Nepal: The village facebookers | Everyday Milan Lohani leaves his small farmhouse in the Himalayan foothills and walks half an hour to school. Milan’s school library had relied on second hand books sent by overseas donors until three years ago when the internet came to town. It has taken him and his classmates little time to workout how to utilize the information they find online for getting news, information for study and helping their families farm. Like other teenagers around the world they also use the web for social networking. | 10 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoWireless Rural Nepal the barefoot cyber doctor | Lured by a painting he saw of a barefoot doctor in a Chinese magazine, Dr Saroj Dhital moved to Shanghai to study medicine. Returning to Nepal he took the lessons he learned from China’s barefoot doctors and applied them to the villages of Nepal. Over time the concept expanded to use video conferencing via the internet as a means to allow barefoot doctors to bring complicated cases to specialists in Kathmandu. | 3 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoChina & the African Drought: Part 6 – The Road to Harar | In the final part of the series, D J Clark describes his journey across Ethiopia and reveals a very different place than he had imagined before taking on the assignment. Under the guide of local photographer Johnny Zirotti he takes time out of his reporting tasks to investigate the old streets of Harar. | 25 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoChina & the African Drought: Part 5 – transferring technologies | As part of a drive initiated by China’s Ministry of Commerce to help improve livelihoods in Africa, 142 agricultural projects have been set up across the continent, including 14 specialized agricultural technology demonstration centers. In this video D J Clark travels 85 kilometers outside the Ethiopian capital to visit the new Ethiopia-China Agricultural Technology Demonstration centre and speak to the people involved in its creation. | 18 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoChina & the African Drought: Part 4 – an African union | Formed just ten years ago, the African Union has quickly become a key institution in the continent for building peace and stability as well as dealing with common issues affecting all 54 countries. In this video China Daily reporter D J Clark visits the new 800 million RMB Africa Union headquarters donated by China to investigate why supporting the institution is important for long term food security in the continent. | 12 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoChina & the African Drought: Part 3 – a mission to help Africa’s children | Born, brought up and educated in Beijing, Lu Wei has since worked all around the world on UNICEF health programs. Now director of UNICEF Ethiopia’s health program she sat down with China Daily to tell her life story and explain why it’s important for China to be supporting health care in Africa. | 5 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoChina & the African Drought: Part 2 - The Ali’s Story | In the second in a series of videos on the African food crisis, D J Clark meets a family struggling to survive in Ethiopia’s worst hit area. The horn of Africa has suffered it’s worst drought in sixty years and although the seasonal rains are now starting to arrive, in Ethiopia, 4.5 million people are still reliant on direct food aid to survive according to the UN. Last week the first of a series of Chinese food shipments arrived in Ethiopia to help the local government deal with a shortfall of food aid. | 29 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoChina and the African Drought: Part 1 Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa | The UN estimates there are currently 13.3 million people across the horn of Africa in need of emergency assistance divided between Ethiopia (4.5 million), Kenya (3.75 million) and Somalia (4 million) plus an additional 150,000 in Djibouti. In the first of a six part series D J Clark describes the current situation and the role China is playing in the relief effort. | 22 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoMy Town Bangkok with Joe Torres and Yasmin Lee | In the eighth of a series of travel stories D J Clark stops over for one night in Bangkok, where he is taken on a whirlwind tour of some of Bangkok’s night markets, temples and eateries. | 14 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoMy Town Cotabato with Ferdinandh Cabrera | In the seventh of a series of travel stories D J Clark travels to one of Asia’s most conflict ridden cities in the west of Mindanao, the Philippines. Spending a morning under the guard of three Marines he took a tour with a local TV reporter of this historic yet troubled city. | 7 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoMy Town Manila with Kat Palasi | In the sixth of a series of travel stories D J Clark meets photographer Kat Palasi in the old shopping district of Manila, Philippines and takes him on a short tour of her childhood memories. | 1 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoMy Town Tianjin with Du Hai | In the fifth of a series of travel stories D J Clark takes the fast train from Beijing to Tianjin to spend a day with documentary maker Du Hai discovering parts of his home town often missed by normal tourist trips. | 23 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoMy Town Xiamen with expat-blog.com | In the fourth of a series of travel stories D J Clark Takes up a recommendation to spend a weekend in Xiamen and takes to the internet to find local residents to give him hints on places off the tourist trail. | 16 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoMy Town Shanghai with Chang He | In the third of a series of travel stories D J Clark meets photographer Chang He in his hometown Shanghai. Chang He starts the day by giving Clark a google map of his favourite places around the city and sends him off for a packed day of discovery. | 10 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoMy Town Dali with Wang Jingchun | In the second of a series of travel stories D J Clark meets photographer Wang Jingchun in his favourite city of Dali, Yunnan. | 3 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoMy Town Dhaka with GMB Akash | In the first of a series of travel stories D J Clark sets off to discover the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka with renowned photographer GMB Akash as his guide. | 27 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoThe Looming Food Crisis in Asia : The Gardens of Beijing | About three years ago Tom Huang found himself in increasing pain from a bad stomach and went to the hospital for a diagnosis. The doctors told him it was the food he was eating that caused the problem and he needed to change to a healthier diet. Tom could not afford the expensive organic food offered in the Beijing supermarkets so he joined the increasing army of urban farmers tending small plots of land on the outskirts of the city. The first five parts of this series made the case that populations across Asia are increasing at a faster rate than food production and that unless something is done the continent will face a food crisis. In the last part D J Clark returns to Beijing to investigate the development of urban farming as a means to mitigate increasing global food prices. | 20 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoThe Looming Food Crisis in Asia : Changing Tastes | In this part Clark investigates the role of markets and governments in managing access to food. | 6 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoThe Looming Food Crisis in Asia : Century of Cities | In the third part of this series, D J Clark discusses increasing food insecurity in cities where access to food rather than the lack of food is a rising issue. | 30 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoThe Looming Food Crisis in Asia : The Age Old Problem | In the second of a six part series investigating the growing gap between food production and global population growth, DJ Clark crosses the Chinese border into the western hills of Nepal to investigate the age-old problem of food shortages in vulnerable rural communities. | 23 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoThe Looming Food Crisis in Asia : The Crisis | In the first of a six part series investigating the growing gap between food production and global population growth, DJ Clark explains the key issues facing Asia and how they have arisen. | 16 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoTackling HIV/Aids in the South African Karoo | On a journey across southern Africa to investigate the World Cup Legacy, D J Clark found a small grassroots soccer scheme that was helping communities in the semi dessert towns of the Karoo to fight HIV/Aids. | 9 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoThe Karoo to Cape Town: A Journey | D J Clark drives from the centre of the South African Karoo down to Cape Town and discovers breath taking landscapes, welcoming guest houses and a few very interesting characters. | 2 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoBengali New Year | In the streets around Dhaka University in Bangladesh, families turn up in their thousands to celebrate together with traditional music, face painting and a parade down Kazi Nazrul Islam Ave. | 24 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoThe Great Himalaya Trail | In This video D J Clark dons his walking boots and goes to investigate the great Himalaya Trail. | 17 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoMerlion Hotel | Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi has transformed Singapore’s most famous landmark, the merlion, into a one-bedroom hotel as part of the Singapore Biennale 2011 Open House art project. The lion/fish was dreamed up in 1964 by the Singapore tourist board as a symbol for the city representing a mix between 'singapura' (‘lion city’) and the sea where Singapore’s history was based. Later, in 1972, it was turned into a statue on Marina Bay and has since become a main feature of the city. | 10 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoBeijing Dragon Boat Culture Festival | The Third Beijing Dragon Boat Culture Festival kicked off at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park over the weekend. Visitors were treated to a whole series of cultural folk displays, dragon and lion dances a cultural heritage bazaar and three days of dragon boat races at the Olympic water sports venue. | 3 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoRare Photographs of 1950’s China Found in New Zealand | New Zealand photographer Tom Hutchins spent four months in 1956 travelling through China on an exclusive assignment for Life Magazine. Fifty years later, photographic historian John Turner discovered this rare archive and set about piecing together a unique collection. | 27 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoNha Trang: Vietnam’s No 1 Beach Resort | Named last month by travel website Expedia as a top ten top pick of winter beach destinations, and host to Miss Universe in 2008 and Miss Earth in 2010, Vietnam’s premiere seaside resort, Nha Trang is on the up. | 20 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoSaigon By Motorbike | Ho Chi Minh, or Saigon as it is better known, offers the independent traveller an adventurous short break. Arranging a motorbike city tour is more expensive than taking the bus but there is no set route and can offer a very different view of Vietnam’s most populated city. | 13 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoKathmandu Water | After 20 years of water shortages in Kathmandu, Nepal, local entrepreneur Sushil Shrestha restored an ancient stone tap system by harvesting rainwater. | 6 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoImpressions of the Royal wedding in London | The wedding of Prince William of Wales with Catherine Middleton in London, UK was celebrated with street parties across the country. China Daily’s D J Clark was in London for the day as a spectator and also found a group of Chinese students to give their impression on how the lavish event unfolded. | 27 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 41 Episodes |
