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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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 …
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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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
The Chicago Youth Boxing Club (CYBC) is tucked in a church basement in the Windy City’s Little Village neighborhood, providing one of the area’s few after-school activities. Since it was founded in 2006, the gym has become much more than a place for kids to hang out. “It isn’t enough to get kids off the street,” says Ana Patricia Juarez, programming …
As the 21st century marches on, a new ocean is likely to emerge, making way for what could be the last great land grab in human history. That ocean is the Arctic Ocean, and its once powerful ice – a barrier that has long kept away all but the most intrepid explorers – is yielding …
I spent a week in Mali, traveling to various communities — including Timbuktu — to look at how the NGO Trickle Up! is helping people living on less than $1 a day take their first steps out of poverty through a unique microenterprise development program. I shot and field produced this; Lisa Zeff put it together when …
In the three years after September 11, 2001, how much safer do you feel? In this Discovery Spotlight presentation, produced in association with the New York Times, we explore the ways federal, state and local governments have worked to make us safer, and learn from experts what things still need to be done. From the …
How does the press cover a presidential candidate? How does a candidate get his/her message out through the “filter” of the media? Follow along on the campaign trail as we turn cameras on the press to explore the quadrennial political dance of politics and the media. Hosted by political satirist Andy Borowitz. This Campaign Essentials Documentary …
In June 2003, I ventured to Baghdad, Iraq, where I shot elements for an hour-long documentary called “Hunting Saddam.” The program — which I co-produced with Mary Dore at New York Times Television — chronicles the attempts to assassinate and otherwise remove Saddam Hussein from power. Among the stories in the hour are the two …