About Mediahacker
Update 1/13/2010: I am fine. Staying in Port-Au-Prince.
My name is Ansel Herz. I’m a 21-year-old freelance journalist based in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Why Haiti, since September 2009? Read here.
I’ve reported for Free Speech Radio News on Texas prison and immigration issues and organized with Indymedia and Food Not Bombs in Austin. I hosted and produced local community radio show On the Fringe from Spring 2007 through the end of 2008. Started college at the University of Washington at age 15 and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in multimedia journalism.
My goals are to advance media justice and “go to where the silence is” in my own reporting.
Resume (PDF). Skills: HTML, CSS, PHP, Wordpress, Photoshop, Audacity (audio production), radio, writing, Soundslides, shooting video, iMovie, Final Cut Pro.
Send me an e-mail.
Selected clips (not updated since Haiti earthquake):
- PRINT: Haiti: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at UN Troops
- AUDIO: UN Renews Haiti Peacekeepers Mandate
- AUDIO: Haiti’s Prime Minister gets the ouster
- WEB DESIGN: Brownfemipower’s Flip Flopping Joy
- VIDEO: Retrospective: the Ssangyong Workers’ Occupation
- AUDIO: “Chubbing” jams up Texas Legislature
- WRITING: Haiti Needs U.S. support for Democracy
- AUDIO: Walnut Creek Apt. residents speak out after youth is fatally shot by police
- AUDIO: Private prison in Texas found responsible in inmate death
- AUDIO+PICTURES: Podcast: Austinites raise their voices for Gaza
- AUDIO: Conditions at Texas Mental Institutions Blasted by Justice Department
- WRITING: Series Introduction: Globalization – Of Bond and Global Politics
- WRITING: ICE does not belong in Austin’s jail
- AUDIO: Campaign against the Construction of a Border Fence in Texas
- WRITING: Shot in the Back: APD, City of Austin, and Corporate Media Blame Shooting on East Austin Club





