Classic Reporting and Writing

and Multimedia Journalism

 

Stories for paper pages and online screens. Also,
producing digital journalism mixes in multimedia.

After beginning as a fact checker and a junior features
editor at women's magazines, I have spent most
of my career writing for newspapers: News, news features, literary journalism and essays. Since the digital media revolution began unraveling some of the old ways a
few years ago, a tech-savvy friend helped me create this site. I’ve posted work that I once had to spend hours clipping, pasting and Xeroxing from newsprint if I wanted to save it for posterity. And, I’ve chronicled stories that evolved from a digital media journalism fellowship at Ohio State University.

 

Highlights.

--"Videos" composed of still photos and sound that
address wealth, poverty and ambition for change in
Buffalo. Text stories built with video inserts
that work with the words, like paragraphs.

--A volunteer trip to Ghana, writing seminars with staff at the Daily Graphic in Accra and a teaching experiment to help people quickly distill material, make stories and use the narrative arc to keep the stories interesting.

--News essays in old-school print. A series in the Buffalo News about idiosyncratic local gathering places that reveal Buffalo, its personality and how people make life in this
city of bygone riches on Lake Erie: From rail fans who meet at the Depew train station each night to the expats from Soviet bloc countries who sweat and drink tea at the
Schvitz and the summer scene at the drive-in.