Training

Vertical Video Storytelling

I’ve developed several professional development lessons for CNN’s “MasterCraft” on-demand series, and traveled to each of our bureaus to conduct in-person vertical video storytelling training sessions for more than 250 journalists.

MasterCraft: Storytelling & Package Writing

Project Management

Assault on Democracy

Seven people who played a role in the January 6th insurrection. This interactive project showcases their stories through social media posts, video interviews and strong writing.

Assault on Democracy: Paths to Insurrection

Writing

A sunken warship, a lost hero and a discovery that reunited a family

Only 19 men still living know the agony that unfolded on July 30, 1945, the day two Japanese torpedoes struck the USS Indianapolis. Tony King never had much interest in reliving it. Until now.

Tony King, 92, survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945.
Tony King, 92, survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945.

Writing

Black or ‘Other’?

At the heart of a controversy brewing in America’s hospitals is a simple belief, medical students say: Math shouldn’t be racist. An in-depth look at race correction in modern medicine.

Black or ‘Other’? Race correction in modern medicine

Video

Beneath the Skin

Horrific cuts cover her son’s body after he’s shot dead by Chicago police, and Cynthia Lane wants answers. A yearlong investigation shows the truth is not always black and white.

Beneath the Skin: A three-part documentary investigation

Writing

It’s not just the water in Flint

Evidence of the most recent crisis in Flint is easy to spot. But the city’s problems started long before Michigan declared a state of emergency.

‘It’s not just the water’ in Flint

Project Management

We Remember

In just over a year, Covid-19 claimed more than half a million US lives. Here, families share their favorite memories of the loved ones they’ve lost.

We Remember: 500,000 lives lost to Covid-19

Emmy award-winning video

‘No Olvidado’

At least once a month, the Aguilas del Desierto, a group of 30 predominantly Mexican-American volunteers, travel to the Sonoran desert to search for migrants reported lost or missing.

No Olvidado: Death and dignity on the US border

Writing

A charred body, shifting stories and a convicted man’s assertion of innocence

The rumor mill churned after the body of 18-year-old Jessica Currin was found burned and decomposing in 2000. Her father says the man convicted is innocent.

Quincy Cross listens during his sentencing. Credit: Stephen Lance Dennee/The Paducah Sun/AP