As the Chief family editor, you need to become the hub for copies of all the old family pictures. If you can ask for details like what the event was, the date, who the folks were in the photo, etc., and you were a tech geek or an engineer, it would all go into a database or at least an excel sheet. Then you’d have sorts and searches up the wazoo.

For any events you attend, well, you’re the journalist, so you better be taking pictures. Not ones where everyone lines up and puts on a pasty smile. You need the ones that would be considered Off Camera, almost Paparazzi style. One’s where your subject is just naturally doing their thing and not even aware you’re there.

Some stories you uncover could benefit from researching what was happening at the time. Then blend it into your edited podcast. I.E., Headlines at the time, geographical info to pin down the place and the travels, Cultural traditions, and what was the norm during those times relative to our day. You want to immerse the consumer into the part of time and place.

As an example of some of this, checkout the initial raw interview blended with support material we found:

We actually split the initial video into two: