About
Tim Lesle is a freelance multimedia journalist living in San Francisco. He has worked in print, photography, audio, web design, and online media. He has helped others learn principles of video and audio recording and editing, web design, and online storytelling at the Knight Digital Media Center workshops. He has also worked as an editor and graphic designer.
As for content, that’s all over the map, too. He is most often interested in stories of people, science, and the environment. But that’s a jumping-off point—to money and business, technology, architecture and design, resource extraction, the movement of people, politics.
See his résumé here. An outline of his geobiography is here.
A list of selected journalism is here.
Highlights of his experience include:
-Reporting in China and India. The work from two of his trips to China have earned awards: for his photography in China’s coal country, including the “Boom Times” series; and for the investigative multimedia story “Green Dreams” published by PBS’s Frontline/World.
-Attending Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and working with journalists including Michael Pollan, Lowell Bergman, Orville Schell, Sandy Tolan, and Russ Rymer.
-Appearing on Jeopardy, of all things. (broadcast October 2007).
-Founding the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science.
Sites with information on or by Tim include:
The professional networking site: LinkedIn
The social networking site: Facebook
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Résumé
The mixed bag of photos: Flickr
The freelance photojournalist page: Lightstalkers.
