Month: April 2013

High on the job


When you’re a reporter covering medical marijuana policy, what could possibly go wrong?

I interviewed Michael Montgomery for this story and directed the animation with Arthur Jones. Audio production by Ariane Wu. This story was produced for the Center for Investigative Reporting and was posted on The I Files. I conceived this story as the pilot episode of a storytelling series about journalists originally called Off the Record. The series was acquired by VICE Media, Inc. in August 2013 and is now called Correspondent Confidential.

How news can compete with cat videos: 6 lessons for multimedia journalists


Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I led digital storytelling projects for six years. We were often working with very dense, complex subjects and translating them for a younger, Web-savvy audience with a notoriously short attention span. That wasn’t easy. But the larger challenge was pushing new ideas forward in a traditional news environment.

Read the full essay on Poynter.org.

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