I’m a San Diego-raised adventurer, purportedly descended from Johnny Appleseed. Much like Appleseed, I enjoy traveling the country and have a fondness for fruit. Unlike Appleseed, I’m an professional photographer, licensed drone operator, certified scuba diver, and award-winning video producer and editor.
I focus on Multimedia Storytelling and Journalism as Assistant Professor of Communication at Marist College in the Hudson Valley. Previously, I was staff senior multimedia producer with Newsday on Long Island. An Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII alumnus, my work has since been recognized by the Peabody awards, Polk awards, New York Emmys, AP Sports Editors, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Press Club of New York, Headliners, NYPPA, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern Short Course, and Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, among others.
Prior to Newsday, I spent much time face down in rivers with the non-profit documentary company Freshwaters Illustrated, interned at the Portland Tribune in Oregon and Link TV in San Francisco, and taught English for two years in the coldest part of Japan, Hokkaido
I received an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University and a BA in film and digital media from University of California at Santa Cruz.
Available for: photography video production video editing drone / aerials
Based in the Hudson Valley – can travel anywhere.
RECOGNITION:
2022 NY Emmy Award: Sports News Story for “Dunia: Tragedy to Triumph.“ (Supervising video producer and editor)
2022 New York Press Club award for Feature Science Medicine & Technology NY Metro for “Gift: Interrupted” (Video editor)
2022 Silurians President’s Choice Medallian Award “Policing Long Island” (Visuals producer, video editor)
2022 Silurians Medallian Award, TV Feature News “He’s Going to Kill Me: Joanna Bird’s Story” (Photographer, video editor, producer)
2022 Silurians Merit Award in Science and Health Reporting “Back Inside the Red Zone” (Video editor, producer)
2022 New York Press Photographers Association: Best Long Form Documentary “Cameras and Consequences” (Video editor, writer, producer)
2021 NY Emmy Award for Craft: Writer – Long Form Content for “Decades of Deceit”
2021 NY Emmy Award for Craft: Director – Long Form Content for “Testing the Divide”
2021 NY Emmy Award for Environment/Science Long Form for “Decades of Deceit“ (Visual producer, video editor)
2021 NY Emmy Award for Crime – News for “Gilgo Beach Investigation” (Photographer)
2021 NY Emmy Award for Documentary – Historical for “American Gangster” (Photographer)
2021 NY Emmy Award for Interactive Media for “Long Island Divided” (Video co-director, Video editor, Photographer)
2021 NY Emmy Award for Documentary – Topical for “Long Island Divided” (Video co-director, Video editor, Photographer)
2021 NY Emmy Award for Health/Medical Short for “One day in an LI Maternity Ward” (Video producer, photographer, editor)
2021 Deadline Club Award winner in digital local news reporting category: “Decades of Deceit” (Visual producer, video editor)
Judges comments: “This ambitious project was a public service, tracing decades of corporate malfeasance and its impact on a small community. In addition to its long-form text pieces, Newsday provided its audience with an impressive short documentary highlighting the project’s most astonishing findings. It’s the type of enterprise watchdog journalism that exemplifies excellent local news coverage.”
2021 Deadline Club Awardwinner in multimedia, interactive graphics, and animation category: “Decades of Deceit” (Visual producer, video editor)
2021 Deadline Club Award finalist in multimedia, interactive graphics, and animation category: “Inside the Red Zone“ (Visual producer, video editor photographer)
2021 New York News Publishers Association award for Distinguished Investigative Reporting and Distinguished Community Service: “Decades of Deceit” (Visual producer, video editor)
2021 Silurians Presidents Choice Award(top prize): “Decades of Deceit” (Visual producer, video editor)
2021 Silurians Medallian, Science, Health and Environmental reporting award: “Inside the Red Zone” (Visual producer, video editor photographer)
2021 Silurians Medallian, Editorial, Commentary and Public Service award: “They don’t tell you anything, then all of a sudden your mother’s dead.” Cold Spring Hills nursing home project (Visual producer, video editor)
2021 Silurians People Profile Medallian award: “American Gangster” (Visual producer, photographer)
2021 New York Press Club award for Documentary: “Decades of Deceit” (Visual producer, video editor)
2021 Scripps Howard Award Winner for Excellence in Visual Journalism. “200 Protests” (Video producer, video editor)
Judges comments: “Look at the faces,” Scripps Washington Deputy Bureau Chief Keith Summa said, “and you know the pain and you know the story.” As Akili Ramsess, executive director of the National Press Photographers Association, said of the Newsday entry: “This shows, more than anything, the value of the visual journalist because we can’t phone it in, we can’t work out of our homes. The photographers literally put lives, their lives, on the line.”
2021 Scripps Howard Award Finalist for Excellence in Environmental Reporting. “Decades of Deceit” (Visual producer, video editor)
2021 Fair Media Council Folio Awards Winner in Investigative Reporting, Best Multimedia Package, Community Service, Environment News, Best News Special Report. “Decades of Deceit” (Visual producer, video editor).
2021 First Place in Covid category, National Press Photographers Northern Short Course Photo Contest. “Birth and Covid“. (Photographer).
2020 Peabody Award for Community Service: “Testing the Divide” (Video co-director, Video editor, Photographer)
Judges comments: “Newsday’s three-year-long investigation of housing discrimination and its impact on Long Island’s suburban towns and communities is local investigative journalism at its best. … Through compelling documentary, data journalism, and hidden cameras, Long Island Divided is comprehensive and exhaustively detailed, showing the personal toll and collective impact on individuals and families subjected to housing discrimination…”
2020 Edward R. Murrow Award for Documentary: “Testing the Divide” (Video co-director, Video editor, Photographer)
2020 George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting: “Long Island Divided” (Visuals producer, Video co-director & editor)
2020 Silurians President’s Choice Award (top prize): “Long Island Divided” (Visuals producer, Video co-director & editor)
2020 News Leaders Association Award Punch Sulzberger Award for Innovative Storytelling: “Long Island Divided” (Visuals producer, Video co-director & editor)
2020 NY Emmy Award for Lifestyle Program: Program / Special: “Feed Me TV: Journey Into the Oculus” (Graphics)
2020 NY Emmy Award for Informational / Instructional: “Feed Me TV: Raising the Sushi Bar” (Graphics)
2020 NY Emmy Award for Corporate Video or TV Series: “Feed Me TV: Season 5” (Graphics)
2020 International News Media Association Award for Best Use of Video: “LI Divided” (Visuals producer, Video co-director & editor)
2020 International News Media Association Award for Best in North America, Regional/Local Brands: “LI Divided” (Visuals producer, Video co-director & editor)
2020 Deadline Club Award for Digital Innovation: “LI Divided” (Visuals producer, Video co-director & editor)
2020 Deadline Club Award for Public Service: “LI Divided” (Visuals producer, Video co-director & editor)
2019 NY Emmy Award for Craft: Program Editor (Top video editor prize)
2019 NY Emmy Award for Magazine Program: “North Fork’s Prodigal Son” (Editor and Photographer)
2019 NY Emmy Award for News Special category: “Life on the Bays” (Director, Photographer, Editor)
2019 NY Emmy Award for Documentary: “When You’re Ready” (Music)
2019 NY Press Club Best Documentary: “Life on the Bays” (Director, Photographer, Editor)
2019 New York State Associated Press Investigations & Watchdog Reporting award: “Pathway to Power” (Drone Videography and Animation)
2019 New York State Associated Press Public Service award: “Public Space, Private Benefit” (Drone Videographer)
2019 First Place Video, New York State Associated Press award: “We are Brentwood” (Editor, Photographer)
2019 First Place Digital Storytelling, New York State Associated Press award: “Pathway to Power” (Drone Videography and Animation)
2018 NY Emmy Award for Arts: Feature: “Viva Africa” (Producer, Photographer, Editor)
2018 NY Emmy Award for Crime: ‘The Cost of Corruption” (Producer, Editor, Photographer)
2018 NY Emmy Award for Historical/Cultural: “Precedent: Reflecting on Japanese Internment” (Producer, Photographer, Editor)
2018 NY Emmy Award for Religion: “A Musical Resurrection” (Photographer)
2018 International Film Expo, Alan Fortunoff Humanitarian Award: “Always a General” (Editor, Photographer)
2018 Deadline Club Finalist for Digital Innovation: “Sanctuaries” (Photographer, Editor, Producer)
2017 1st Place Long Video: Associated Press Sports Editors Award: “The Cut” (Photographer, Editor, Producer)
2017 1st Place Video: New York Press Photographers Association: “The Cut” (Photographer, Editor, Producer)
2017 Edward R. Murrow Award: “The Last Trailer Park” (Producer)
2017 2nd Place Best Video, International News Media Association: “Sanctuaries” (Producer, Photographer, Editor)
2017 3rd Place Online Video, National Headliner Awards: “Cost of Corruption” (Producer, Photographer, Editor)
2017 NY Emmy Award for Craft: Sports Photographer
2017 NY Emmy Award for Craft: Sports Editor
2017 NY Emmy Award for Nostalgia Program: “Out of the Shadows: The Negro Leagues” (Photographer)
2017 NY Emmy Award for Interactivity: “The Fighter and the Father” (Producer, Photographer, Editor)
2017 NY Emmy Award for Societal Concerns: “The Last Trailer Park” (Producer, Graphics)
2016 NY Emmy Award for Craft: Sports Editor
2016 NY Emmy Award for “Hush: Rhythm of a Hometown Chef” (Producer, Director of Photography and Editor)
2016 NY Emmy Award for “Spice of Life” (Editor and Photographer)
2016 1st Place Multimedia, Associated Press Sports Editor award for “Hard Knocks” (Photographer and Editor)
2016 2nd Place Video, Associated Press of New York State award for “Always a General” (Producer, Photographer and Editor)
2016 Deadline Club finalist for “Always a General” (Producer, Photographer and Editor)
2015 1st Place Multimedia, Associated Press of New York State for “Hard Knocks” (Photographer and Editor)
2015 1st Place Video, Associated Press of New York State for “Test of a Champion” (Photographer)
2015 3rd Place Video, National Headliner Awards: “The Test of a Champion” (Photographer)
2015 3rd Place Multimedia, Associated Press Sports Editor award for “Paramount to Pacquiao” (Producer, Photographer and Editor)
2015 NY Emmy Award for “Truck: Eddie Gordon’s Journey to the UFC” (Producer, Photographer and Editor)
2015 NY Emmy Award for “Sea Salt” (Photographer, Editor)
2015 1st Place Multimedia, New York Press Photographers Association Northern Short Course for “Double Lives of Derby Girls” (Editor)
OTHER NOTEABLE WORK
Visual producer and video editor for “Assaulted in a Police Station.”
Visuals published in USA Today: Jo’Anna Bird story
Visual producer, photographer for “Inside her final months: “She really felt like she was going to die.”
Photo essay “The other side of the curve.” A visit inside a NY hospital struggling to recover from a COVID-19 surge.
Drone for Lyndhurst Mansion Website
Video elements and timelapse for “ESPN’s 15 Hours in the World’s Most Famous Arena“
Producer, photographer, editor on: Inside the Rise of MS-13 on Long Island
Published in Time.com: “The US Birth Rate Dropped Last Year, but don’t blame it all on the pandemic.”
Published in RollingStone.com: “This might just be the first chapter.”
Published in Vox.com: “Covid-19 Deaths” and “They’re all Americans”
Producer, photographer, editor for 360 degree view of graffiti museum.
Photo essay for Terra Magazine: “Under the Hood: Geologists reveal the steady personality of Oregon’s Signature Peak.”
Cover of Fisheries Magazine July 2014 issue “River Chub”
Photo essay and article for Oregon Sea Grant: “Life Cycle of a Lab: Research on the Klamath River”
Photographs published in the book by Liz Rusch, “The Next Wave: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Ocean