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I'm a journalist and a news editor on the Mississippi coast. I like creating and curating content of all kinds, so take a look around and don't hesitate to contact me.
I'm a journalist and a news editor on the Mississippi coast. I like creating and curating content of all kinds, so take a look around and don't hesitate to contact me.
These are the award-winning projects I have edited and worked on with reporters, photographers and videographers over several months.
It started with grieving father’s Facebook post detailing how three men — a state trooper, a high school principal and a newspaper editor — asked for leniency for the judge’s son who killed his daughter in a reckless DUI crash. Reporter Margaret Baker and videographer Amanda McCoy would spend most of 2018 revisiting and exploring the story of how one instant changed the course of two families.
I was the lead editor on this project that won a McClatchy President’s award. After Margaret Baker uncovered that a 14-year-old disabled girl’s assault was captured on school bus surveillance video, we obtained and published the (edited) video. The incident would never have seen the light of day without Baker’s reporting, which prompted outrage among parents, local leaders and lawmakers.
The report also led to an investigation by the Department of Education, sweeping changes in school policy and new proposed laws that make such abuse a felony oand allow school boards the authority to fire those who fail to report such incidents.
This is the first project I was lead editor on, and it won the McClatchy President’s Award and prompted new legislation thanks to reporter Wesley Muller’s dogged search for people who could best tell the story of Mississippi’s broken foster care system.
I created the series graphic, and was an assisting editor and frequent sounding board during the months Margaret Baker spent covering the devastating death of a 7-year-old girl in Ocean Springs, Miss. A rare kind of childhood brain cancer called DIPG seemingly affected a high number of families on the Coast, and Baker’s reporting prompted a state investigation.