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: […]
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“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Live in-studio interview reported two months after the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. (Reporter, Researcher, Booking Producer)
Cover Story for The Deli Magazine Profile on emerging artists Wilsen and the rising “dream-folk” genre.
for Paste Magazine June 20, 2013 Music fans and the media said this was the year Governors Ball could compete with the top summer festivals. An incredibly dense three-day lineup of major indie-rock mixed with top-selling EDM and a sprinkling of big […]
Photo slideshow for billmoyers.com. When Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011, it wasn’t clear how the movement would proceed without a central base of operations. Most other prominent occupations, including those in Los Angeles […]
Amid Manhattan’s vanishing printing industry, one of the few remaining old-fashioned printing presses, the Heidelberg, still thrives.
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 […]