NLGJA 2026 National Convention

Before AIDS was called AIDS, or HIV, I wrote stories for the Pittsburgh Gay News magazine about the 'mystery disease affecting gay men' in 1982 and 1983. That was when I had the stamina to hold more than one job at a time. I have spent more than 40 years as a journalist. From 2020-2024, I was with the National Press Foundation (NPF), which provides no-cost journalism training for reporters in the U.S. and around the world through expenses-paid fellowships. Ask me if you need more info. on NPF.
Before that, I worked 17 years at National Geographic, including as Director of News & Documentary Digital Video, Director of Digital Media Operations and Senior Producer. Prior to that I was a broadcast journalist spanning 20 years in Washington, DC, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, twice a television news director, and I anchored, reported and produced in both TV and radio.
I also taught video journalism at the Medill School of Journalism (Northwestern University) and West Virginia University.
At National Geographic, I worked with U.S. and international journalists, delivering video stories covering wildlife, the changing global climate, history, science and culture. I managed National Geographic’s launch of its YouTube Channel in 2006, and over my career, produced and led diverse storytelling, from a National Science Foundation funded 16-part video series on effects from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to National Geographic’s first video series from Iran.