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Television reporting
(Find additional stories and series segments in my YouTube reporting archive)
In 1998, California enacted the most wide ranging ban on smoking in the U.S., virtually outlawing smoking indoors in public spaces, as a public health measure. I thought it would be interesting to go to the part of the country where smoking laws were the loosest. It's no surprise that was in tobacco country, North Carolina.
Reporting from the collapsed Cypress Freeway, October 17, 1989. (Video opens in new tab on YouTube)
Jeb Bush was known only as the son of the Vice President and Republican nominee when he made the rounds at the Republican Convention in 1988.
May 8, 1987 report near the Santa Fe Trail's terminus when it was named a National Historic Trail.
Newspaper.coms
These are links to presentations on digital news practice as well as a few published projects, some retrieved from the Wayback Machine.
At the annual ASNE conference, during a panel on journalism and new media, questions arose as to the value of storytelling in the digital age when my emphasis was on how Web visitors were focused on ‘getting a job done’. Editors were also just becoming aware of distribution platforms such as Twitter.
At The Wall Street Journal
At The Dallas Morning News
At The Orlando Sentinel:
SF and Silicon VAlley Startups
My work at digital native media companies has encompassed journalism practice, reporting and product management:
Report on Jan. 9, 2001 Macworld Expo keynote by Apple C.E.O. Steve Jobs.