Tag: journalism awards
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New York Mag: “Capturing the Humans of New York”
I produced, shot and edited this 4-minute short about Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton. The final video and a written Q&A (I had so much good stuff that didn\’t make it into the video!) appeared on Tumblr Storyboard and New York Magazine\’s Daily Intel blog. In a nice nod, Vimeo added it to…
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National Press Club Honorable Mention: “The Mind of the South”
Newsweek sent son of the South Christopher Dickey on a roadtrip retracing Sherman\’s March to the Sea in the summer of 2008. Dickey, son of \”Deliverance\” author James Dickey, wanted to gauge whether Dixie had changed enough to vote for a Black president. The Newsweek video team produced 11 videos from the trip, each plotted…
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2011 GLAAD Award Nomination: “Kicked Out but Ready to Go Back”
The Newsweek multimedia team was nominated for two GLAAD awards in 2011; one was for my 2010 video \”Kicked Out But Ready to Go Back\”. That piece looked at a soldier who had been expelled from the military under Don\’t Ask Don\’t Tell but was eagerly trying to get back into service any way she…
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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,…