Jacob Templin
Award-winning producer and editor
At Thomson Reuters Foundation I am leading a team of highly-skilled video journalists. We publish short documentaries and in-depth explainers from around the world focused on climate, technology and economic inequality.
In recent years, fast fashion brands like Zara have promised to produce and sell clothes in a more sustainable way for both the planet and the people who make their clothes.
But our reporting found that those promises are at risk, due to some of Zara's — and its parent company Inditex's — business tactics.
Qatar has spent ten years and more than $200 billion preparing for the World Cup. The building boom surrounding the event has relied on migrant labourers, mostly from the Philippines, Bangladesh, India and Nepal, willing to work long hours in extreme heat.
The film won multiple awards, including the Picture of the Year Award of Excellence and first prize at the Paris International Film Festival.
Artificial intelligence lives on power and water, fed to it in vast quantities by data centres around the world. And those centres are increasingly located in the global south.
Why is Big Tech choosing water-stressed regions for their water-hungry operations? And why are governments giving data centres access to water when so many of their citizens are going thirsty?
As a senior producer of social video at the New York Times, I worked across news, design and social teams to relaunch breaking news video on Facebook and Instagram.
We covered some of the biggest news moments of the year, from the chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan to the trial of Derek Chauvin. The quick-turnaround breaking news videos amassed tens of millions of views across social platforms.
Afghans Storm Kabul’s Airport in a Desperate Bid to Escape
Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of Murder
I was executive producer at Quartz. In addition to overseeing a team of video journalists, senior produers, editors and animators, I’ve produced a number of videos - chronicling the rise of drone racing, profiling the roboticist behind Baymax, and explaining why Koreans have two ages.
From Fortnite to Candy Crush, video games and mobile games are relying more and more on in-game, in-app purchases, and loot boxes to make money. This means gaming companies are finding new ways to keep players playing and spending.
This video was made in collaboration with Retro Report won an Edward Murrow Award for excellence in video.
This is an episode of Because China, an award-winning series about China’s growing global influence.
This is the first episode of a three-part explainer series about risk.
Designing the perfect dog toy isn't easy, but the BarkBox team is trying.
At TIME I covered everything from politics, to healthcare to the music industry. Here are a few of my favorite pieces.
Elon Musk said of his space Internet venture: "Starlink will effectively reach the 3-4 percent hardest to reach customers, or people who have no connectivity." And even though the product is still being tested, they’ve found political backers in Washington DC, where interest in expanding broadband is at an all time high.
In this documentary, funded by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, I take a hard look at that promise, and at the state of broadband access across the United States today.
I co-produced a documentary about Franco "The Great", a street-artist in Harlem who paints murals that celebrate Black history and culture on the store-front gates along Harlem’s iconic 125th Street. A city law threatened to remove the gates, putting his art and legacy in jeopardy.
The film was screened at The Rooftop Film Festival and Harlem International Film Festival and was aired nationwide in 2011 on PBS World.
In 2024, the film was nominated for recognition and preservation by the Library of Congress by Congressman Joaquin Castro.
