As editor of Somerville Patch — a local news website owned, at the time, by AOL — I worked to combine traditional shoe-leather reporting with emerging methods in digital journalism. This included filming and editing short video packages and clips: a precursor to the short-form video journalism that has become increasingly popular today. Here are some examples.

Online video packages

↓ Somerville’s What the Fluff? Festival, celebrating marshmallow fluff, which was invented in the city’s Union Square:

 

↓ Tufts University students protest Karl Rove, who was giving a talk on campus. This story was picked up by Huffington Post:

 

↓ Behind the scenes at Cavalia’s “Odysseo,” an equestrian circus performed in the world’s largest touring tent:

 

↓ New England’s first LEGOLAND Discovery Center breaks ground in Somerville. I produced this video using footage I shot and footage supplied by LEGOLAND:

 

↓ The world’s smallest museum opens in Somerville’s Union Square:

Breaking- and spot-news clips

↓ Former State Senate President William Bulger receives questions about his brother, James “Whitey” Bulger, after Whitey’s first court appearance in Boston. The brothers hadn’t seen each other in about 16 years:

 

↓ Gov. Deval Patrick officially endorses Elizabeth Warren in her run for Senate:

 

↓ Residents talk about damage caused by Hurricane Irene:

 

↓ Sen. Elizabeth Warren talks about the automatic budget cuts known as “sequestration”: