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Our Purpose >>To teach responsible storytelling.
Our Approach >>
Intense. Experiential. Collaborative.
Our Students >>
Driven. Passionate. Immersed in the documentary process.
Our Program >>
15 weeks. Radio. Writing. or Photography. People. Landscape. Stories. Maine.
Documentary at Salt is, at its core, journalism; students seek the truth and report it. Our approach, however, differs from daily journalism in the depth of our reporting, the intimacy of our stories and our de-emphasis on spectacle and celebrity. Through fieldwork, collaborative critiques, and guided discussion of relevant work, we teach students how to ethically research and gain access to a story, collect information, edit their work, and return to the field to refine the process. Borrowing from a variety of disciplines outside of journalism to tell stories — art, sociology, anthropology, oral history — students produce a professional, intimate, humanistic body of work and leave Salt better equipped to work in their chosen field.
At Salt, we train aspiring writers, radio producers, and photographers in the art of documentary storytelling — creating thought-provoking, richly worded stories. In the process, our students struggle to find their own voice, learn to sit comfortably with discomfort, and to ask hard questions not only of their subjects, but also of themselves. We encourage students to value and pursue truth, using journalistic skills and ethics to produce powerful, fair-minded, technically astute documentary work.
Salt is a place where professionals from a variety of disciplines work together to promote and advance the field of documentary studies. We educate and train technically proficient and ethical storytellers who search for the truth with integrity; we graduate working professionals who recognize the complexity and subjectivity of truth.
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Salt provides equal opportunities to all program applicants with respect to admissions, facilities and programs, and financial assistance without regard to race, color, religion, sex, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, alienage, age, disability, marital status, ancestry or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law. Salt complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination. Salt also expressly prohibits any form of harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, alienage, age, disability, marital status, ancestry or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.