When the Vindicator, the only daily newspaper in the city of Youngstown, Ohio, announced it was closing down after serving the city and the surrounding Mahoning Valley for 150 years, the community was shocked. But they weren’t alone. Over the past 15 years, over one in five newspapers have closed in the United States, according to …
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David Todd is the Chief of Police in Fargo, North Dakota and one of his biggest fears is losing one of his officers. That happened in 2016, when Officer Jason Moszer answered a call about a domestic violence dispute. More officers are killed on domestic dispute calls than any other service call. Chief Todd says closing …
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As clean energy job growth outpaces conventional energy sectors like coal in Illinois, new opportunities are being created in both rural and urban areas of the state. This video, produced for Midwest Energy News, explores how evolving grid technology — as well as new and existing state policies — have contributed to clean energy job …
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In the winter of 1910, a young woman named Bessie Watkins left her small Ohio town for the big city of Cleveland. She told her family a new job awaited her, and she took the train north. They would never see her again. In fact, her surviving family and their descendants would never even hear about her until …
On the morning of New Year’s Eve in Chicago, hundreds marched down Michigan Avenue, one of the city’s wealthiest streets. Many of them held crosses with the names of all those murdered in 2016. There were more than 760 homicides in Chicago last year, the highest number since 1997. Craig was the Reporter/Director of Photography on this piece for AJ+
Pain, passion and persistence run through the stories of charter school parents in this Northwest state who find themselves entering the second year of a constitutional battle over school choice. Produced, filmed, written and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Kate Stringer for The 74 Million, which describes itself as a “non-profit, non-partisan news site …
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These are the Karachi vets who step in to save donkeys that are abused or injured in Pakistan’s remote villages. The program, launched by the Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation, sends the vets out every two weeks to treat the beasts of burden who work throughout Pakistan. In doing so, the donkey camps also help the desperately poor donkey owners.
When an Oreo manufacturing plant in Chicago moves production to Mexico, hundreds of workers are laid off. In this short documentary, we meet the workers who lost their jobs and keep hope that the company will reverse its decision. Produced, filmed, written and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Stephen Franklin for NBCNews.com
Over Memorial Day holiday in Chicago, Craig joined more than two dozen other journalists with the New York Times to report on every single shooting victim in the city that weekend. The rate of gun violence has gone up this year in Chicago, and the holiday weekend usually sees a spike in shootings. In all, 64 people were shot …
I went to Pierogi Fest in Whiting, Indiana to shoot a video complement to this story in the Wall Street Journal about the delicious — and highly caloric — Polish dumpling called the pierogi. Didn’t have a chance to dunk a nun, but I did have a few of the little dumplings, and I got to …