I’m constantly
trying to:
Campaign managers, flat earthers, gun runners, gamblers, hurricane victims, and mass shooting victims have trusted me to tell their stories. They saw that I wanted to understand them – their dreams, fears, and motivations – and how those combine to create a political animal.
Video Journalism
I’ve pitched, shot, produced, edited, and hosted videos (or some combination thereof) for The Recount, Vanity Fair, Mic, BuzzFeed News, and VICE News.
The only way to make an impact is to create videos that grab viewers attention, satisfy the itch that made them watch it in the first place, and to do it so well that they feel compelled to share it. I try my best to do that with stories that matter, to craft them specifically for the platforms where they’re shared, and to show the teams I’ve led how to do the same thing.
Podcasts
In August of 2020, I built a podcast team from scratch and launched three weekly podcasts with four of the most prominent names in politics: David Plouffe, Steve Schmidt, Jennifer Palmieri, and John Heilemann.
We were small, scrappy, and prolific. Seven months later, we launched an afternoon podcast that was published four times a week with John Ellis, author of the newsletter News Items. Not long after, Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir took over from Plouffe and Schmidt as the co-hosts of Battleground.
I was the lead producer for both Battleground and News Items while leading the entire podcast team.
Development
I’ve developed YouTube formats for Conde Nast Entertainment, news and sponsored digital series for VICE News, non-fiction television for Viceland (Vice TV), and pitches for production companies Punched TV and Leopard Films.
For every project, I ask the same three questions: Would I click on this? Would I finish it? And would I share it? It’s hard, and I love the challenge.
Television
Associate producer, location manager, casting director, field producer, development producer, producer – I’ve done almost every production job there is.
During the first season of Impractical Jokers, when there was a tiny locations budget and no one had heard of the show, I coaxed business owners into letting us rig hidden cameras in their stores. Now the series is syndicated. A few years later, I traveled across the country to field produce a series that profiled small family businesses. The job I’m proudest of: producing a special episode of Gaycation with Elliot Page on the Pulse shooting in Orlando.