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 […]
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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: […]
“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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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)
for PBS “Need to Know” In the race to find renewable energy options, solar energy is one the easiest and least environmentally taxing ways to harness natural resources. It requires minimal time and infrastructure compared to other energy sources like […]
Health study story published on PBS “Need to Know” site with viral viewership. By Bianca Seidman When married women have trouble falling asleep at night, it makes for a tough next day on the homestead, according to a recent study […]
for PBS “Need to Know” This week is the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of what would become known as AIDS. From those first five patients, doctors knew it was a new disease that severely suppressed the immune system causing […]
CUNY-TV segment on East River islands adjacent to Manhattan used as medical quarantine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Reporter, Producer) Written, Shot and Edited by Bianca Seidman