Solana Pyne and Erik German are multimedia journalists based in Brooklyn, NY.
Together and individually, their work has appeared on CNN, NOVA, GlobalPost, Voice of America, NY1, the public radio program The World and in Newsday, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, Discover Magazine, Science and The Los Angeles Times.
Shortly after they met in 2005, Solana and Erik began pioneering the multi-platform reporting method they've used on five continents. They worked side-by-side in hurricane-wounded New Orleans, producing print and video stories they sold to outlets in New York City. For a reporting trip in 2006, they stashed notebooks, tapes and a hidden camcorder into two backpacks and snuck into Zimbabwe – a country notorious for jailing foreign journalists.
They moved to North Africa in May 2009 to devote themselves full-time to joint multimedia reporting. In early 2010, they traveled to Bangladesh, spending several weeks reporting from the slums of the capital, Dhaka, for an award-winning series on the world's fastest growing megacity. In August of the same year, they moved to Rio de Janeiro as senior GlobalPost correspondents. After a year covering everything from economics to climate change in one of the world's fastest growing countries, they decided it was time to return to the city where they met. In New York, they've been adapting their multimedia reporting to a medium that seems made for the form, the Ipad. Their most recent projects have apeared in The Daily.
