I’m a San Francisco-based multimedia editor at The New York Times. Previously, I taught at Columbia University and UC Berkeley, was the new media projects editor at the Las Vegas Sun and a multimedia developer at the Smithsonian Institution.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets. Photographer Damon Winter profiles six.
Two weeks of daily photo coverage following the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot by a police officer.
Slow motion video reveals how Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. and Andrés Iniesta do what they do best.
David Guttenfelder takes us on a journey along the Interoceanic Highway, the first paved route to fully cross South America.
Some of the best snowboarders and skiers describe the joy and fear that come with performing jaw-dropping maneuvers.
Stunning photos and videos of our editors’ must-visit picks for 2014 is the first big multimedia project on the new Times website.
Dozens of moments captured as Todd Heisler walked the perimeter of Manhattan over the course of one day in August.
An exploration of the complicated relationship Americans have with firearms in this series of intimate, multimedia portraits.
Taking visual cues from graphic novels, we tell the bizarre, real-life story of a seemingly undistinguished cage fighter.
The multimedia-rich story of Russel Baze, the winningest jockey in American history, in words, videos and graphics.
Moving portraits highlight just a few of the hundreds of reader-submitted quiet places in New York City. A map for the rest.
Our editors’ picks of the 46 must-visit travel destinations for 2013 is chock-full of breathtaking professional and reader photos.
"Before and after" panoramas using the Google Maps API with custom imagery to immerse readers into post-tornado Moore.
An interactive audio transcript highlights key moments in the Supreme Court hearings on California’s Proposition 8.
Go behind the scenes of the 2013 Westminster Dog show, where we photographed 143 Best of Breed winners over two days.
Web development, including lead on the mobile experience, for this Pulitzer Prize-winning mixed media narrative about an Avalanche.
A four-part, interactive look at truths, half-truths and context in the 2012 presidential and vice-presidential debates.
A reference by theme of candidates stretching the truth in stump speeches on the 2012 presidential campaign trail.
An interactive graphic of sounds in New York City, with profiles of New Yorkers exposed to varying degrees of harm.
An interactive documentary and Pulitzer finalist on the rise and fall of a NHL enforcer. I received an Emmy nomination for my role.
A subtle twist on a slideshow: when the narration is playing, users unknowingly control the ambient audio by changing slides.
The 30-something me reached back into the teenage me years to pull together our 20th anniversary of grunge quiz.
Custom WordPress plugins to feed narrative content into a Rails app highlighting stories and data about NYC schools.
I built three hyper-local news sites, and a custom, media-rich WordPress theme to run them, as part of my Ford Foundation grant.
Worked with a student on a proof-of-concept, Django-based site comparing demographic and lifestyle data for 65 Bay Area cities.
We turned a dry Bureau of Transportation Statistic’s dataset into an interactive tool for visitors flying in and out of Las Vegas.
With outside designers and in-house developers, I managed the relaunch of an entertainment site for an edgy alt-weekly.
Managed designers, developers and journalists tasked with re-envisioning a dated news site into a multimedia-rich destination.
Kiosks present multiple first-person perspectives on conservation topics, illustrating the complexity of real-world issues.
Interactive screens allow visitors to explore three stories of Panda science: medicine, reproduction and animal management.
New York, N.Y. & San Francisco, Calif.
January 2011 – present
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
New York, N.Y.
January 2012 – December 2013
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Berkeley, Calif.
January 2009 – January 2011
Las Vegas Sun | Greenspun Interactive
Las Vegas, Nev.
September 2007 to January 2009
Washington, D.C.
July 2004 to September 2007
Washington, D.C.
October 2003 to July 2004
Washington, D.C.
July 2001 to October 2003
Chapel Hill, N.C.
August 1999 to May 2001
Awards and nominations for projects that I’ve had a significant role in leading, producing, designing or developing.
Honorable Merit, Online Feature Story Editing, for "The Secret Life of Passwords".
Nomination, New Approaches: Documentaries for "Gun Country".
Nomination, New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture for "The Jockey".
Gold, Feature for "What Is the Higgs?".
Silver, Breaking News for "Before and After: 360° Views From Moore, Okla.".
Winner, Best Use of Multimedia for "The Jockey".
Second Place, Multimedia Package for "Finding the Quiet City".
Second Place, Documentary Multimedia Story for "Invisible Child: Dasani's Homeless Life".
Award of Excellence, Use of Multimedia for "Finding the Quiet City".
Award of Excellence, Single-Story Project for "Gun Country".
Award of Excellence, Use of multimedia for "The 46 Places to Go in 2013".
Award of Excellence, Breaking or Daily News Single-subject project for "Before and After: 360° Views From Moore, Okla.".
Award of Excellence, Use of multimedia for "The Higgs".
Award of Excellence, Use of multimedia for "The Jockey".
Award of Excellence, Use of multimedia for "Tomato Can Blues".
Award of Excellence, Non-planned coverage for "A Painful Mix of Fire, Wind and Questions".
Winner, Feature for "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek".
Nomination, New Approaches: Current News Coverage for "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek".
Gold Medal, Use of Multimedia — More than 50 Million for "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek ".
Silver Medal, Use of Multimedia — More than 50 Million for "Video of First Debate Between Obama and Romney".
Nomination, New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming for "Punched Out".
Special Mention, Multimedia for "Punched Out".
Best Use of the Web for "Punched Out".
First Place, Multimedia Package for "Punched Out".
Third Place, Documentary Multimedia Story for "Punched Out".
Gold, Single-subject project — More than 50 Million for "At the Metropolitan Museum, a New Wing, a New Vista".
Award of Excellence, Series or Event — More than 50 Million for "Punched Out".
Award of Excellence, Breaking News — More than 50 Million for "Panoramas of Joplin Before and After the Tornado".
Award of Excellence, Section or Topic — More than 50 Million for "SchoolBook".
Excellence in Coverage of Trauma for "Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer".
Runner-up, Multimedia for "Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World".
Third place, Monthly Multimedia Contest, April, for "An American Cleric".
General Excellence, Medium Site (lasvegassun.com)
Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site, Less Than A Million Uniques A Month (lasvegassun.com)
Fluent in JavaScript (and a slew of libraries and frameworks), HTML5, CSS, WordPress development, Django templates and Photoshop.
Proficient in PHP, MySQL, SQL Server, SASS, Ellington CMS, Git, Subversion , BASH, FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Linux administration, Amazon Web Services, Apache and Final Cut Pro.