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Alphonso Van Marsh

  • Communications Expert and Consultant, African Development Bank Group
Covers:  Development, International news, reporting in conflict areas, business features/profiles, aid/development issues, quirky features. Short form and long form/documentary work.
Comms/Digital Storyteller/Journalist - into a bit of everything. Fmr. @CNN London, Joburg, Cairo, Istanbul, Atlanta, Nairobi. Fmr. @CBS London. Fmr. @ADB_HQ

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African Development Bank's "Fashionmics Africa" program

African Development Bank's "Fashionmics Africa" program

African Development Bank — Winner of a "Communicator Award of Excellence" from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts for online media campaign. Winner of a "Salute to Excellence" award from the National Association of Black Journalists, in the category: PR & Marketing Campaigns – Online Media. Marsh led the production of this explainer video about the African Development Bank's "Fashionmics Africa" program. Field produced shoots, conducted interviews, coordinated between the Bank client department and the contracted production company, with an emphasis on post-production technical support.

Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace launch video

Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace launch video

African Development Bank — Our submission of this explainer video, related digital content and press coverage of the marketplace launch, won the Salute to Excellence Award for "Best PR and Marketing Campaign - Online Media" category from the National Association of Black Journalists, America's largest organization of journalists and media-related professionals of color.

African Development Bank TAAT program uses agritech to transform African crops, improve lives.

African Development Bank TAAT program uses agritech to transform African crops, improve lives.

African Development Bank — With exception to drone images and a field sequence, Marsh used an iPhone to shoot video and photographs across four countries for this seven-minute African Development Bank feature.

Alphonso Van Marsh Photo Gallery

Alphonso Van Marsh Photo Gallery

goo.gl — Some un-retouched, still images taken with entry level iPhone, Sony or Canon digital cameras, by Alphonso Van Marsh

TRAVEL/World's biggest underground trampoline opens in Wales

TRAVEL/World's biggest underground trampoline opens in Wales

CBS News — Tourists are loving the bounce and braving vertigo-inducing slides in a 200-foot, nearly 200-year old underground mining cave. CBS' Alphonso Van Marsh treks to the massive trampoline structure called "Bounce Below."

TRAVEL/Royal Caribbean launches "most high-tech cruise ship" on the high seas

TRAVEL/Royal Caribbean launches "most high-tech cruise ship" on the high seas

CBS News — Southampton, England -- Royal Caribbean says its new Quantum of the Seas cruise liner is so wired with "smart" technology that guests will ditch the idea that vacation is all about unplugging. CBS News' Alphonso Van Marsh gets onboard.

TRAVEL/New digital smell technology transforms smartphones into smell-o-phones

TRAVEL/New digital smell technology transforms smartphones into smell-o-phones

CBS News — City University London's Mixed Reality Lab is testing ways to say it with a smell -- developing cell phone apps and plug-ins that emit scents like flowers, food and spices. CBS News' Alphonso Van Marsh takes a whiff.

Montage: Palestinian-Israel conflict

Montage: Palestinian-Israel conflict

CBS News — CBS News dispatched Alphonso Van Marsh to cover the Palestinian-Israel conflict for the Network's 24-hour television newsgathering service for 200+ CBS affiliate televisions stations.

CBS This Morning: live at the Winter Olympics

CBS This Morning: live at the Winter Olympics

CBS News — Marsh served as occasional correspondent for CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, CBS Morning News, CBS Radio and on-line channel CBSN, with assignments including the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

CBS Evening News report: London Cyclists Fight Back

CBS Evening News report: London Cyclists Fight Back

CBS Evening News — Marsh served as occasional correspondent for CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, CBS Morning News, CBS Radio and on-line channel CBSN, with assignments including this story on London's cyclist deaths.

CBS Newspath Sweeps feature: 93-year old widower's leap for love

CBS Newspath Sweeps feature: 93-year old widower's leap for love

CBS News — Marsh's enterprise story for CBS affiliate "sweeps," about a 93-year-old British man fulfilling a death bed promise to his late wife to parachute from 10,000 feet to raise money for charity.

Live from South Africa/Nelson Mandela Funeral

Live from South Africa/Nelson Mandela Funeral

CBS News — Marsh provided live shots for dozens of CBS affiliate stations from Johannesburg and Pretoria, as South Africa laid its former President, Nobel laureate and civil rights icon Nelson Mandela, to rest.

TRAVEL/Embraced by American hotels, almost waterless washing could come to homes

TRAVEL/Embraced by American hotels, almost waterless washing could come to homes

CBS News — Major U.S. hotel chains are already trying out new washing machine technology that uses plastic beads - and less water - to help get stains out of clothes. Engineers behind the 'waterless washers' say they're working on a model that can be used at home. CBS' Alphonso Van Marsh reports.

TRAVEL/Why don't ballerinas get dizzy?

TRAVEL/Why don't ballerinas get dizzy?

CBS News — Researchers at the Imperial College London say they've discovered differences in the ballet dancers' brain structure that help them suppress that dizzy feeling. CBS News' Alphonso Van Marsh reports.

TRAVEL/Spinning in South Africa

TRAVEL/Spinning in South Africa

Cable News Network (CNN) — International Digital Correspondent Alphonso Van Marsh reports on the latest - and some say reckless - motor sport craze in South Africa...spinning. Marsh produced, shot, reported and edited this CNN feature story.

TRAVEL/CNN Backstory: Egypt's Cockroach of the Nile

TRAVEL/CNN Backstory: Egypt's Cockroach of the Nile

Cable News Network (CNN) — CNN International Correspondent Alphonso Van Marsh gives "CNN Backstory" viewers a lighthearted behind-the-scenes look at his "CNN: EcoSolutions" report on a new threat to Egypt's Nile river ecosystem.

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