Dan Archer

Dan Archer is the founder of Empathetic Media, a VR, AR and graphic journalism production agency specializing in immersive storytelling. His work has been published among others by the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Washington Post, American Public Media, Vice and Fusion, covering topics from the Colombian peace process to homelessness in NYC, life in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh and human trafficking in Nepal. Through Empathetic he also created the first augmented reality coverage of the Freddie Gray trials being held in Baltimore through Empathetic's mobile app, ARc stories. He is currently researching the metrics of empathy in VR journalism at the Tow Center at Columbia University, was a 2014 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow at the University of Missouri and a 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. @empatheticmedia www.empatheticmedia.com