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The Wall Street Journal: Cars
Daquila serves as a multimedia producer for WSJ.com. As a freelancer, he is paired with automotive journalist Dan Neil, whose “Rumble Seat” column appears in print and online in the WSJ weekend section. Since April 2010, Daquila has created video shorts for the web to accompany the car reviews. Neil provides his commentary and appears on camera, and Daquila shoots and edits the reports.
Neil is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for his car columns in the Los Angeles Times.
Cars covered include Aston Martin, Hyundai, Jaguar, Porsche, Range Rover and VW. Each video receives up to 15,000 streams in the first week of posting, often ranking in the top 10 most watched on the site.
Also go directly to the WSJ Autos Video Center.
Anchored in Faith
Ko Panyee is a true island village, built on stilts above the bay in southern Thailand. The humble community seems happy in its poor fishing heritage and Islamic faith but is also buoyed by a steady lunch crowd of tourists from nearby Phuket.
Photographer, videographer, editor.
Featured in Endeavors, the magazine of research and creative activity at UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2009.
Moving to Higher Ground
Villagers from the small coastal Alaskan town of Newtok have endured extreme weather leading to massive erosion. Though not at fault, this group of some 350 Yup’ik Eskimos is among the planet’s first casualties of climate change. They are forced by rising sea levels and melting permafrost to relocate, but uncertainties in funding this unprecedented event place the village in danger. Because Newtok hopes to stay together to maintain their strong traditions, the entire community has chosen to work through frustrations to move intact to a new village site on higher ground.
Photographer, videographer, editor.
Awards:
2010 Student Society for News Design (Missouri University) College News Design Contest, Best One-Subject Stand-Alone Mini-Site or Special Section, Honorable Mention.
NPPA Multimedia Contest, Sept. 2009, 2nd Place, Team Video.
Featured on Mother Nature Network, Carolina Alumni Review and The Best of News21.
Segment in Episode 19 of Earth Focus on LinkTV, airing also on DIRECTV and DISH Network.
One Way In, One Way Out
The people of Crusoe Island, the once-isolated rural area between the Waccamaw River and the Green Swamp in Columbus County, N.C., have gained notoriety as much for being suspicious and quick-tempered as for skills in hunting, fishing, wood crafts and pickin’-n-singin’.
Videographer, editor.
Start of the Sound
Making music on a woodwind all starts with that vibrating piece of cane.
Videographer, editor.