Hi All –
Welcome to the newly launched http://www.chrisjordanmedia.com . I recently left my job at the Fairfield Daily Republic to pursue a freelance career as a multimedia producer, photographer and filmmaker. The website will house the journalistic and personal project spectrum of my new life. I’m not sure what direction this blog will take. I’ll write about what’s happening with me, but I also do a lot of multimedia watching and tweeting, so I might link to other peoples work as well.
It was bittersweet leaving my newspaper job. I really care about the people and stories in Fairfield and it was amazing to come to work everyday with my fellow photographers and good friends, Brad Zweerink and Mike Greener. In addition to the people and stories and friends, being a newspaper photographer and multimedia producer was pretty much my dream job. A job that allows you to build relationships with people, help a community and be freshly curious about life all while geeking out with cameras, video gear and microphones is a hard one to beat. I honestly figured that I would be a newspaperman (or newspaperwebsiteman) for the rest of my life. I’d do great work and make a difference in Fairfield and then slowly make my way up the career ladder to the San Jose Mercury News. There I could work with my photojournalistic and multimedia heroes, people like Richard Koci-Hernandez, Dai Sugano and Pauline Lubens. However, the career ladder that existed when I started working at my college newspaper eight years ago has been eviscerated by a host of technological and societal changes. Now newspapers are becoming places where people spend a lot of time saying “you should have been here when…,” and I really didn’t want to spend the rest of my life thinking about what might have been had I not left and tried something new.
So here goes.
Chris
powerful message ,thank you