Portfolio

Posted by admin on May 28th, 2007

Here are some examples of the various audio work I have done. They are divided into five sections:

Independently produced audio stories
Interviews produced for The Story: with Dick Gordon
Multimedia projects
Non-broadcast voiceover
Live On-Air


Independently Produced Stories

A Bit of the Old South — The Florida coast’s last mobile home park decides to sell to a developer. For some, it’s mere profit. For others, it’s the end of a way of life.

Try, Try Again — One man’s quest to put an old town back on the map.

Goodbye Tobacco, Hello Strawberry Jam — In 1997, North Carolina’s tobacco industry collapsed. Statewide annual income from tobacco fell from $1.3 billion to just $400 million by 2005. With the aid of their own ingenuity, as well as the Tobacco Community Reinvestment Fund, resourceful farmers such as Harold Wright have found other ways to survive.

Life Between the Canyon Walls — Paula Leonor Rivera Checa is a Cabana indian living in Colca Canyon, Peru. Her life weaves together simple subsistence and complex tradition.
This story, along with an accompanying photo slideshow, is featured on the award-winning multimedia website, White City Stories.

Island Life — Robinson Crusoe Island, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, is a place where the romantic past and the harsh realities of the present come together. Will the current colony survive, or disappear like so many before it?
This story, along with an accompanying photo slideshow, is featured on the award-winning multimedia website, Chasing Crusoe.

JFEX — The U.S. Army and Air Force recently created the JFEX - a Joint Forces EXercise - to train for the changing military landscape. At Fort Bragg in North Carolina, that means taking an airstrip from an extremist Arab militia.


Interviews produced for The Story: With Dick Gordon

I have produced and edited many interviews for The Story, a public radio program distributed nationally by American Public Media. Clips of some interviews are included below. Click on the show title to link to the entire interview.

Military Skinheads — TJ Leyden was once a skinhead in a Marine uniform. He used to recruit other Marines into the neo-Nazi movement. Now he lectures against such behavior.

After Tiananmen — A one-time student activist at Tiananmen Square, Shen Tong now does business with the Chinese government.

Art Despite Oppression II — A follow-up to an interview we did with Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal. During this interview, Wafaa is sitting in a Chicago art gallery while people around the world shoot at him, using a paintball gun connected to the Internet.

Getting Through — In the aftermath of the massacre at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, we spoke with Lauren Bohn, a survivor of the Columbine shootings, about her own journey towards forgiveness. Soon after the interview, Lauren headed to Blacksburg to offer her support to surviving students.

Waving at Strangers — Just a good story about a woman who shared a wave and a smile every day with a stranger on her drive to work. That is, until one day when she decided to stop, and he became a stranger no more.


Multimedia projects

For my most recent multimedia work, you can always check the “My Latest Work” list in the right sidebar of this website. Below are links to some current and past multimedia projects.

Health Dialoguesweb producer

Health DialoguesI am currently the web producer for Health Dialogues, a radio program produced by KQED FM Northern California Public Radio and broadcast on stations throughout California. My work focuses on bringing underserved communities into the public radio fold, and engaging our audience with unique and interactive web content.




Imagining Californiaan interactive slideshow

Imagining CaliforniaAn interactive photo slideshow I built for The Nature Conservancy, using Flash and SlideShowPro.














White City StoriesLife and history in and around the city of Arequipa, Peru

White City StoriesTime Magazine’s Top 50 websites, 2007

I was Audio Director on this documentary multimedia website, which was produced by students at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Here is a direct link to the audio/photo story I reported and produced.

See the credits page for a complete list of my involvement.







Chasing CrusoeThe past, present and future of Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile

Chasing Crusoe

I was Director of Audio and Audio Scripting on this documentary multimedia website, also produced by students at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

I also produced an audio/photo story called “Island Life,” found in the documentary section titled “Isla Mas a Tierra.”

See the credits page for a complete list of my involvement.








Non-broadcast/Corporate Voiceover Projects

Museum exibit — A sample from a narration I recorded for a museum exhibit on lighthouses. [Note: if you follow the link, there is an informational video about the exhibit that is NOT my voice.]

DVD narration — Here is a sample from a voiceover narration I recorded for an interactive DVD version of Making Presentations, an instructional book on… making presentations! (The DVD has not yet been released.)

Website narration — Here is a narration that I wrote, recorded and produced for a website raising money to fight Alzheimer’s disease. (I also designed and produced the website.)



Live On-Air

Carolina Connection — Here is an air check from Carolina Connection, a weekly news magazine show. At the time, I was co-hosting the live program while operating the soundboard. The program includes live readers, pre-produced features and spots, as-live interviews, and live phone chats. The audio clip below is edited to highlight my performance (sorry, Adam…). To visit the archives and hear unedited broadcasts, click on the link above.


I Am a Voice123.com Voiceover

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