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Banning Fire

The guy who lived here lost everything in the fire.A month earlier, his mother passed away.I felt sad for him at the time.Later I realized how much I should have just admired him.In the interview he did for our station, he put everything in perspective…

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Banning Fire

The guy who lived here lost everything in the fire.A month earlier, his mother passed away.I felt sad for him at the time.Later I realized how much I should have just admired him.In the interview he did for our station, he put everything in perspective…

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Not My Mayor

(I live in Hawthorne.  We have our own damn Mayor.)Right now I wish somebody named Bob Smith was running for Mayor of Los Angeles because I just don’t feel like looking up how to spell Wendy Greuel or Eric Garcetti correctly.I think I got Greuel r…

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Not My Mayor

(I live in Hawthorne.  We have our own damn Mayor.)Right now I wish somebody named Bob Smith was running for Mayor of Los Angeles because I just don’t feel like looking up how to spell Wendy Greuel or Eric Garcetti correctly.I think I got Greuel r…

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Atlanta crew heads to NOLA for Superbowl XLVII

I was pretty excited to find out I was on assignment to go to Superbowl 2013 , not to mention it ended up being in New Orleans this year.  I teamed up with Charleston DP Dave Baker and we covered a whole slew of things during our week there. We did some interviews with the […]

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How to put together a TV news package

One of the strongest broadcast journalism programs in the country is located at the University of Montana, and Professor Denise Dowling is one of the best instructors in the school. She gets students started on video storytelling by following a simple formula. “Begin and end every story with natural sound,” says Dowling, “include a nat …

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Charlotte Crew Shoots Pilot EPK’s for CBS, FOX and NBC.

Pilot Season is wrapped up and what a great experience it has been. Over the past few weeks I shot EPK content for CBS’ drama pilot Reckless, J.J. Abrams-produced series Revolution on NBC, and Fox’s Sleepy Hollow thriller. These shoots were pretty straight forward. We were tasked with shooting interviews and broll with various cast and crew […]

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