About me

I’m a journalist, editor, and multimedia producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m currently Senior Multimedia Producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where I manage and produce multimedia reports for CIR projects, including California Watch. My multimedia reports have been featured by NPR.org, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Grist, Time.com, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times, KQED, PBS NewsHour, Salon.com, Mother Jones, Public Radio International, and Columbia Journalism Review, among others. I’ve been leading CIR’s new media initiatives since 2007, when I came on to oversee all web and multimedia production. My focus now is narrative multimedia storytelling and exploring ways to use new media tools—including video, audio, photography, animation, and interactive graphics—to push the boundaries of storytelling on the Web.

Prior to joining CIR I was an editor at California magazine, Mutual Publishing, and AlterNet.org; creator and founding editor of WireTap magazine (AlterNet’s Webby Award-winning online youth news magazine); reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser and stringer for several daily and weekly newspapers; freelance video journalist for Washingtonpost.com and Current TV; writer for Current TV’s hosted news comedy show, Google Current; and fact-checker at Mother Jones magazine. In 2011, I won an explanatory journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California) for the animated short I produced with reporter Sarah Terry-Cobo called “The Price of Gas.” I was on the 2010 Eddie Adams Workshop faculty as a multimedia producer working with MediaStorm to teach digital storytelling techniques to photojournalism students. I have a B.A. in cultural anthropology from UC Santa Cruz. I completed a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2005.

Contact: carrie(at)carrieching.com.