CES Coverage for TNGG

As the new decade rolled around, I spent several days out in fabulous Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. CES is a huge event where 120,000 attendees converge on the Las Vegas Convention Center to see the latest and greatest techno-wizardry. It was an amazing spectacle and, although exhausting, a heck of a lot of fun. I went with my brother Rob to cover the show for The Next Great...

A Christmas Caroling

Every Christmas my mother leads a troupe of local families caroling around town. They visit the homes of the oldest people in town – especially those who live alone – to bring some Christmas cheer. I decided to bring along my camera and an audio recorder this year and put together an audio slideshow. This was done pretty quick and dirty, but I hope you enjoy...

Cultural Exchange

I was contracted to cover a series of State Department foreign exchange programs that are administered by the UMass Donahue Institute. For two and a half months I followed the various groups – including Iraqi college students, Indonesian teachers, Argentine grad students and a group of 18 professors each from seperate countries – as they experienced everything America has to offer....

UMass Commencement 2009

It feels so weird to have finally graduated. Although I’m already looking back at my three years at UMass Amherst with hints of nostalgia, unlike most of my classmates, my life won’t be changing all that much in the coming months. For the foreseeable future I will be living in Amherst and keeping very involved with life at the university. For the summer I landed a job producing videos...

Against the Deadline

The atmosphere is tense at the Boston Globe headquarters on May 3rd, 2009. In just a few hours, the employees of the paper will learn their fate. Will the New York Times shut the New England institution down? How much will the unions sacrifice to save it? This piece provides a glimpse into a brief moment in history, when the fate of New England’s paper of record – and its 1400 employees –...