I help create and manage multimedia content for clarionledger.com, the Web site for the The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi
Aaron

I shoot and edit Web videos, create interactive graphics with Adobe Flash, maintain the Web site’s content and design and write for print and online. I also try to encourage other journalists to use multimedia to tell better stories. You can read more about my experience on my Résumé.

The Web is no replacement for real life. That’s why I like shooting video and reporting. I love people and ideas. I also fancy myself a thrill seeker, and it’s hard to find tasteful thrills on the Web. Not to perpetuate the stereotype that journalists are poor, but right now I’m considering living out of my truck. Check out more of my lofty goals on my 43things.

Otherwise, I’m perfectly normal. I have an Extroverted-Intuitive- Feeling-Judging personality on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, if you’re into that sort of thing

The small things in life are best. I laugh out loud very often, usually at the computer screen whenever I read a funny phrase or word. “Humdinger,” for example. Sometimes I embarrass myself (like in this About page), but I try to stay genuine.

Likes/Dislikes

YES : NPR, This American Life, France, Maille gherkins, Banana Republic, The Economist, Nutella, Wired, Project Runway, The Office, Heroes, Abita, Avenue Q

NO : Diane Rehm’s voice, the Saw movies, mockingbirds (they sound like car alarms), kalamata olives, ketchup