About

I am a Brook­lyn based media strate­gist, pro­ducer and doc­u­men­tar­ian. I work with visual media and dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to fos­ter sto­ry­telling, col­lab­o­ra­tion and diver­sity. My cre­ative roots lie in pho­tog­ra­phy, and my cur­rent work involves games and inter­ac­tive media.

Ida Benedetto

I am Salon Pro­ducer for the award win­ning polit­i­cal blog Bag­News­Notes, Lead Doc­u­men­tar­ian and Infor­ma­tion Archi­tect on social inter­est games for PET­Lab, and Doc­u­men­tar­ian and Strate­gist for the infa­mous Baby­cas­tles.

Media strat­egy clients have included The New York Times, The World Bank, Barnes & Noble, The Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of the Red Cross and the Tribeca Film Insti­tute. I have worked exten­sively in Guatemala, India, and Ethiopia on doc­u­men­tary projects and com­mu­nity based media pro­duc­tion, includ­ing a Ful­bright grant to Ethiopia. I have a degree in Design & Tech­nol­ogy from Par­sons School of Design and a degree in His­tory from The New School University.

Of all my accom­plish­ments, few will top being voted “Most Likely to Dis­cover Time Travel” by my junior high classmates.

Résumé: PDF, LinkedIn.

Port­fo­lio: here
Email: idaim­ages [at] gmail . com
Résumé: PDF or LinkedIn
Twit­ter: @idaimages

About This Blog

This blog was cre­ated in response to col­leagues’ inter­est in keep­ing tabs on my intel­lec­tual and geo­graphic wan­der­ings. I use this space to cat­a­log my work and report on obser­va­tions. The views expressed here are solely my own and do not rep­re­sent the views of the insti­tu­tions, orga­ni­za­tions and com­pa­nies I am affiliated.