The self-funded documentary, Under the Dome, by former state television presenter Chai Jing, takes a stark look at China's air pollution woes by combining personal narrative, striking imagery, on-the-the ground interviews with scientific evidence.
McKelvey worked hard to break new ground, interviewing, among many others, Samuel Provance, one of the scandal's key whistle-blowers; the infamous Lynndie England ("the lady with a leash," as Mick Jagger refers to her in the song "Dangerous Beauty"); and more than 20 Iraqis who say they were abused.
Partech plans to hit the ground interviewing startup candidates soon.
I've experienced this first hand on the ground interviewing youth in Portland, Ore., for my current survey project Remaking Religion.
Our Comedy editors will be on the ground interviewing your favorite comedians, offering up-to-the-minute coverage via Twitter and our liveblog, taking photos and video, and even playing one or two games that we'll announce in the next few days.
The astronauts had a heavy workload in the first month, as Shepherd told reporters in a space-to-ground interview: "To me, the biggest challenge is trying to pack 30 hours into an 18-hour work day".
The BBC World Service's "Newshour" is one broadcast that has sustained on-the-ground interviews by phone and Skype with Syrian rebels since the uprising began.
Both the maternal health care study and the infrastructure inventory involved extensive on-the-ground interviews in areas that are still dangerous.
The information in the United Nations report is gathered by a combination of aerial surveillance and on-the-ground interviews with farmers, security force members, prosecutors and others who track narcotics.
The report, which drew on existing international data, national figures and policies, as well as on-the-ground interviews, said that while the economic crisis in 2008 had affected the lives of women and men, the resulting cuts in public spending had disproportionately affected women.
