Photo Editing
A 2021 award-winning Wall Street Journal investigation about TikTok. Read the main story here
Hidden Interests Series
A 2021 award-winning Wall Street Journal investigation uncovered how federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest.
The print page for the series. Commissioned illustrations by Art Lien
PG&E
In 2018, PG&E equipment sparked the deadliest wildfire in California history. The Wall Street Journal flew drones over PG&E transmission lines and dug through voluminous records to find out if it could happen again.
This part of the PG&E series emerged as a Page One special project featuring commissioned drone video and still photography showing the remote Feather River Canyon in Northern California where the fire began underneath Tower 27/222. Whipped by strong winds, it raced toward Paradise, Calif., a town of 26,000 people. Eighty five died.
The project was recognized as part of a package of stories as a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Gerald Loeb award winner for Beat Reporting. The Society for News Design recognized it for
the Use of Video in Digital Storytelling/ Infographics/Social Media.
Drone video: Birton Gilbert/DroneBase
Photography: Nathan Weyland
Print pages designed by Nick Hallam.
Berlin Wall Anniversary
The WSJ published a series of special projects to mark the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. First, a multimedia project with drone video, photo illustrations and graphics showing where pieces of the wall were distributed around the world.
For a second installment, reporter Ruth Bender tracked down and told the story of a former East German soldier, Falk Fleischer, who appeared in a well-known Mark Power photograph taken on the night the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Photographer Annette Hauschild visited Mr. Fleischer in 2019 on assignment for this story.
LINK: His World Collapsed the Night the Berlin Wall Fell. Then Came the Hard Part.
Election Profiles: Philadelphia
This collaboration with the WSJ graphics team features hyperlapse video I filmed using a GoPro mounted on the roof of my car while driving around Philadelphia.
Philadelphia photographer Michelle Gustafson artfully captured portraits of people in five neighborhoods across the city in February 2020, which are embedded in the online project and the print section.
50 Years After the Moon Landing
To mark 50th anniversary of moon landing in July 2019, The Journal designed a special 12-page Journal Reports print section.
The series was a mix of archival photo research, as well as photo commissions with a focus on the people who developed the historic technology that brought us to the moon. It was a treat working with photographers Jesse Rieser, Tony Luong, Will Widmer and Peter Garritano who I commissioned for the main feature stories in the section, a look at some of their work below..
Photographs by Jesse Rieser for The Wall Street Journal
Read more about the Apollo Guidance Computer
Photos by Peter Garritano and Will Widmer
LINK: Reach for the Moon: Four Lives, the Space Race and a Chaotic Decade
