Producer | Director
This 22-minute breaking news documentary is an unflinching look at one of the most consequential weekends in recent American history. We gained access to the white nationalist protesters at Emancipation Park and followed the group through the senseless act of terror in downtown Charlottesville and back to rally organizer Christopher Cantwell’s hideaway outside of Virginia.
Since its initial HBO airing in August 2017, the episode has accumulated over 60 million video views across all platforms. Our reporting received significant critical praise for being a pivotal counterpoint to the President’s claim that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
Honors + Awards
2018 Peabody Award
2018 News and Documentary Emmy Awards - Best Story in a Newscast
2018 News and Documentary Emmy Awards - Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story
2018 Pictures of the Year International - 1st Place, Documentary Journalism
2018 Scripps Howard Award - Topic of the Year, Divided America
2017 Sidney Award - Outstanding Journalism
Director | Managing Producer | Cinematographer | Video Editor
Planet Money wanted to tell a story about how T-shirts are made. So we traveled the world to show how they’re made and meet the people who make them. The project was pioneering in scope; it was funded by a $590,000 Kickstarter campaign and distributed across web, mobile and social platforms. Josh Davis discussed the project in with PBS MediaShift and Columbia Visuals.
Honors + Awards
2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards - Silver Baton
2014 IDA Documentary Awards - Best Short Form Series
2014 News and Documentary Emmy Awards - New Approaches to Documentary
2014 Online News Association - Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling
2014 The Gerald Loeb Awards - Best Online Project
2014 Overseas Press Club of America - Best Use of Video, Interactive Graphics
2014 National Press Photographers Association - Best of Photojournalism
2014 Scripps Howard Award - Digital Innovation
2014 Pictures of the Year International - 1st Place, Documentary Project of the Year
2014 Pictures of the Year International - 1st Place, Documentary Journalism
2014 White House News Photographers Association - 1st Place, Innovation
Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
This timely Op-Ed for The Washington Post countered the dominant narrative that the 2022 San Francisco district attorney recall election was a deathknell for criminal justice reform in the U.S. Aided by documentary video elements, this story provides intimate access to Chesa Boudin’s campaign and to prominent sources in the criminal justice community.
Producer, Editor
MediaStorm partnered with The International Center of Photography to publish a film series to honor its annual award recipients. This piece documents the work of Filipina photojournalist Hannah Reyes Morales, who ICP honored in 2020 in the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism award category. This film focuses how Morales shows “tenderness amidst adversity” in her work. The film was distributed and rebroadcast on multiple platforms, including CNN International, MediaStorm and the International Center of Photography.
Producer | Video Editor
One of the last living residents of what is now the Tenement Museum visits her old home. Tenement Memories was filmed by The New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Damon Winter.
Additional Producer | Editor
In 2014, as the U.S. prepared for a drawdown of soldiers from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Soledad O’Brien and MediaStorm take an intimate look at two veterans as they struggle with the transition from war to home.
Honors + Awards
2014 NAACP Image Awards - Nomination, Outstanding Documentary (Television)
Producer | Editor
In 2013, MediaStorm partnered with The International Center of Photography to pilot a film series to honor its annual award recipients. This piece, one of several in the series, tells the story about Photojournalism Award-winner David Guttenfelder’s transformation from a war reporter to a humanitarian photographer in North Korea. The story was widely distributed on the AP and in the Washington Post, and it became the most watched video on MediaStorm.com.
Honors + Awards
2014 The Webby Awards - Best Documentary Series
Producer | Video Editor
Polar bears have become a symbol of the danger of climate change, but in the Western Hudson Bay, scientists have found that our understanding of climate change may not be as simple as it seemed. Fast Food for Polar Bears was the pilot-episode for a reporter-driven science series with Times reporter James Gorman.
Director | Producer | Cinematographer | Video Editor | Writer
Beyond the polarized immigration debate exist thousands of immigrant youth challenged in a society reluctant to accept them. These are some of their stories from the heart of North Carolina. The project was produced as a graduate thesis as part of a Roy H. Park fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Honors + Awards
2012 PhotoWeek DC, Third Place, Multimedia
2012 67th College Photographer of the Year, Silver, Large Group Multimedia Project
2012 Horizon Interactive Awards, Gold, Short Film/Documentary
2012 Horizon Interactive Awards, Gold, Advocacy/Non-profit
Producer
Mattie Larson was an elite gymnast, adored by fans. She was also one of the dozens of people sexually abused by USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar. She spoke to VICE News about USAG abuses in this report featuring Gymcastic host Jessica O’Beirne and UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field.
Producer
When Tristin Fulton walked into a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Troy, Michigan, in March and asked to look at a shotgun, he wasn't on a shopping mission. Fulton knew exactly what would happen: He'd be denied because he was under 21. And that's just how it went down, with his uncle Joel filming the whole thing.
Their goal: to set up a test case against a new policy established after the Parkland school shooting by Dick's and other big-box retailers, including Walmart and Kroger, that banned the sale of firearms to anyone under 21.
Producer
Tanya Gersh and the SPLC are suing a neo-Nazi leader for online-turned-real-world harassment. VICE News Tonight traveled to the resort town of Whitefish, Montana which unexpectedly became the battleground for this white nationalist controversy.
Director | Producer | Cinematographer | Video Editor
Christine Moore lived her dream life rescuing horses in Ohio’s Amish country. But when her neighbors began leasing their land for fracking, her peace of mind gave way to a mental tug of war. This story was produced for 100 Gallons, an Emmy-nominated interactive documentary about water, produced as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 fellowship at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Honors + Awards
2013 News and Documentary Emmy Awards - Nomination, New Approaches to Documentary - 100 Gallons
2013 Society of Professional Journalists, National Mark of Excellence Awards - Gold, Television Photography - Fractured
2013 Pictures of the Year International - Award of Excellence, Multimedia Journalism - Fractured
2012 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards - Honorable Mention, Multimedia
Producer
VICE News Tonight talks to Marc Randazza, a lawyer defending a neo-Nazi website publisher sued for starting an anti-Semitic trolling campaign. The case could draw a new line between free speech and illegal harassment. Also featuring legal scholars Danielle Citron and Mary Anne Franks.
Producer
In the summer of 2017, the alt right was an internet movement, and its rally in Charlottesville was intended to prove they could operate in the real world. It proved the opposite. The marchers had promised there would be more to come — but that's not what happened.
Producer
In response to questions in a story about blocking constituents on social media, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar suggested the participants in the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August 2017 may have been organized by an “Obama sympathizer” and funded by George Soros, whom Gosar accused of having “turned in his own people to the Nazis.”
