The picturesque village of Cooperstown, New York, is anchored by Otsego Lake, where tourists take pleasure cruises and avid runners enjoy a 21-mile path that winds around its bucolic shores, past landmarks like Glimmerglass State Park and the National Baseball […]
Bianca Seidman
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Senior Editor with TODAY/NBC News Digital. Pitching, commissioning, editing, multimedia presentations, tailored social texts, clearances, integration with broadcast team for daily and enterprise health, wellness and news packages here. A few long and medium length features I wrote and produced: […]
For NBC News/TODAY When Terry Gallogly trained her first therapy dogs, she had a simple goal: to bring joy to her little niece. Lily was born in 2009 with a developmental disorder called lissencephaly, in which the brain does not […]
“The world is on track to lose up to 90% of its coral reefs within the next 30 years,” the U.N. says. For NBC News/TODAY The first Atlantic Ocean coral species born through a technique called “induced spawning” has ignited […]
A small sample of international features and news I edited, co-wrote and web packaged for ABC News with foreign correspondents and staff writers. Top- and line-edits for U.S. and AP style, display copy (tailored heds, deks), multimedia sourcing and packaging, research […]
A small sample of health, science, tech and wellness stories I edited, wrote, co-wrote and web packaged for ABC News and “Good Morning America.” Top- and line-edits, display copy (tailored heds, deks), multimedia sourcing and packaging, research and fact-checking, writing […]
A small sample of thousands of stories I edited, wrote, co-wrote and web packaged for ABC News. Top- and line-edits, display copy (tailored heds, deks), multimedia sourcing and packaging, research and fact-checking, writing or rewriting assists as needed, legal and […]
Long-form investigative health story featured on website and teased on broadcast show. for PBS “Need to Know” A thick layer of dust covers the blazing hot combat fields of Afghanistan and Iraq, getting under soldiers’ helmets, chalking up their fatigues and […]
For CBS News When Steve Silberman was a reporter covering Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, he noticed what seemed like a common thread in the families of many tech executives: children diagnosed with autism. He researched the medical literature, spoke […]
Award-nominated longform feature on Scotland’s indie-music history, funding and ties to politics. For The A.V. Club At this July’s T in the Park, the world’s fifth-largest music festival, which hosts 85,000 people in the Scottish countryside every year, the view […]
for CBS News A dramatic increase in the price of a decades-old drug called Daraprim has sparked protest among infectious disease doctors and advocates. The rights to Daraprim were purchased in August by a new company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, which promptly increased the […]
Health features: Author: “Massive reset” needed in approach to autismSurvival rates for very early babies improve, slightlyScientists grow new limb in labWhat young cancer patients aren’t being told about their fertilityBrains of veterans near bomb blasts appear to age fasterOn […]
New York Times Video about unregulated “three-quarters” housing where people with few other housing options get caught in a complex system. (Field producer.)
PBS “Need to Know” segment about military pension buyout agencies, predatory lending and the role of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (Associate Producer, field and in-house)
CUNY-TV, “219 West” feature, M.A. in Journalism Capstone. Investigation into the lifetime barriers for New York State residents with felony records, which cannot be expunged. One-man band reported and produced. Follow-up studio interview here. (Reporter, Producer)
For CBS News A rat in Boston received what scientists are calling the first lab-engineered replacement limb. The “bio-artificial” rat forelimb is the result of a research experiment published online in the journal Biomaterials. Starting with the framework of a donor […]
Award-winning PBS “Need to Know” segment on the challenges that young adults with autism face as they age out of education benefits and government services. (Production Assistant, field and research)
Live in-studio interview reported two months after the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. (Reporter, Researcher, Booking Producer)
I have contributed feature profiles, interviews, show and festival reviews, news and photography to The A.V. Club, Paste Magazine, The Deli Magazine, PopMatters, the NYC News Service and a Modern Rock column I wrote before j-school. Selected clips are indexed below. […]
Studio Interview for CUNY-TV “219 West” on the lifetime challenges for formerly incarcerated people with felony records with Ann Jacobs of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Prisoner Re-entry Institute. Companion to M.A. Journalism Capstone, Sentenced for Life: Felony Records […]