My name is Paul Franz, I am a video and motion graphics producer as well as an aspiring web developer.

TRAINER — #ONAcamp, Montana, “Using Mobile Tools for Effective Digital Storytelling”
WINNER — 2011 Online Journalism Award (ONA), Best Web site for Online Video Journalism
FINALIST — 2011 Online Journalism Award (ONA), Best Multimedia Feature
CO-WINNER — National Press Club – Joan Friedenberg Award for Online Journalism
CO-WINNER — Society of Professional Journalists, Best Independent Online Media Site
SPEAKER — Clinton Global Initiative University 2011, “Education in Post-Disaster Contexts”
CO-WINNER — 2010 Online Journalism Award (ONA), Best Web site for Online Video Journalism.
WINNER — 2009 Grand Prize, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting’s Project: Report.
 
My short documentary videos have appeared with TIME, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Univision’s Despierta America, and with Link TV.

I was most recently recognized for the documentary web site, Haiti’s Lost Children, by the Online News Association (ONA). The project was named the best online video site and was named a finalist in the best multimedia feature category for 2011. In 2010, I was a grand prize winner in Project: Report, a national contest run by Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and YouTube.

I obtained my master’s degree in multimedia journalism at the University of Miami, Fla. in 2010. My work mostly on international humanitarian issues, politics and technology.

For now, I am focused on education policy and politics in the United States and currently living in Washington, D.C. where I’m a multimedia producer for Education Week in Bethesda, Md.

This web site is a product of many months of thought and planning. It’s based on the F8-Lite WordPress theme. Send me an e-mail and let me know what you think.