Author: Jon Groat
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Webby Honoree: \”The Cigarette Diaries\”
I grew up loving Ken Burns documentaries and many of my early pieces for NEWSWEEK were heavily influenced by Burns\’ style. At the time, most of Newsweek’s video was produced as Web accompaniments to magazine articles. One of my job duties was to listen to the stories being discussed in editorial meetings, and ideate pitches…
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Emmy Nomination: \”Voices of the Fallen\”
For the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, the Newsweek editors wrote an impactful cover story about the conflict as told through the letters and words of its heroic dead. I spent a day filming a family in Kentucky who had just lost their father to an IED the previous month. As you can imagine,…