Journalism (brand and otherwise)
I left the news industry in 2008, but my approach to work is still fundamentally journalistic. The things I learned in newsrooms—brevity, research skills, the ability to talk and listen to anyone—are still the core of what I do.
After years of emerging, the North Carolina culinary scene arrived in 2022. For The Assembly, I profiled the African-American chefs powering the state's biggest year ever in the Oscars of the food world.
From a Maine farm to a St. Louis makerspace to a Baltimore classroom, the Raspberry Pi was the common thread weaving together the emerging agriculture projects featured in the Red Hat documentary "Farming for the Future." In this longform piece, I traced the history of the mother of all maker technologies.
This piece, for the sprint 2019 issue of NC State's Results magazine, explores how 3D prtiners and nonwoven nanofibers are creating new synthetic tissues.
What's drawing a generation of ambitious chefs to North Carolina's out-of-the-way places? For The Assembly, I explored the rewards of rural restauranting for three chefs whose work spans the state. (PDF)