EDITORIAL | VISUALS EDITING
IN FOCUS: A WEEKLY PHOTO COLUMN
At The Denver Post, I launched a weekly photo column, In Focus, as a way to highlight interesting world news stories and inform readers of the challenges other countries are facing each day. With a refer to our online gallery collection, it helped take our Mediacenter photo section to over five million views daily.
THE BURNING SEASON: COLORADO WILDFIRES
Over a single, tragic summer, Colorado experienced the worst flooding and fire season on record.
Fires swept through entire subdivisions, moving in so quickly, residents didn’t have time to gather belongings and left them wondering if their homes had made it through. Many families lost everything they had.
THE AURORA THEATER SHOOTING: COLORADO GROUND ZERO FOR MASS MURDER
Just 39 minutes into a summer day, the quiet was shattered. An Aurora, Colorado, police dispatcher calmly put out a call for units to head to a movie theater to check out reports of shots fired.
With reporters, photographers and videographers blanketing the scene, the horrific details were published through social media and denverpost.com: 12 dead; 58 injured; panicked survivors; chaos at the 16-screen theater.
Once again, Colorado would be ground zero to mass murder.
DRILLING THROUGH DANGER: DEATHS IN THE OIL FIELDS
Over a 12-year span, an oil and gas worker died once every three months on average in Colorado, victims of a system focused more on protecting the industry than the people working in the fields.
Team: Primary photography by RJ Sangosti. Video storytelling by Lindsay Pierce. I served as the photo editor.
Results: The Colorado legislature changed laws to make more reporting required.
Awards: Emmy, Community Service, Emmy, Overall Excellence
VIDEO STORY
DRILLING THROUGH DANGER:
MATT'S STORY
Carl and Debbie Smith know about life and loss working in the oil and gas industry. On a cold day in November, 2014, their son Matt was killed working on a drilling site. The 36-year-old father died when a frozen water line exploded.
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FOUR LIVES, ONE LAST CHANCE: A YEAR IN DRUG COURT
Photojournalist Sangjib Min spent a year documenting the first class of the new drug court program in Virginia. He was able to gain the trust of those with multiple offenses and follow them through the program.
I served as photo editor for the project, working closely with Sangjib daily to look over new images and talk through the direction the story was taking.
CELEBRATIONS: A COLORADO CHRISTMAS
