I am a reporter and new media specialist with experience creating interactive features and producing data-driven stories and multimedia. I mostly write about politics, economics, health and design. In July of 2011 I received my M.A. in online journalism from USC's Annenberg School for Communication. This is what I've been working on.
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Pico Art Show – Santa Monica

Local artists came to hawk their goods, local businesses came to promote themselves and local food vendors came to feed the hungry crowds at the Pico Art Show in Santa Monica on Saturday. [Click the photo or here for the full slideshow]

Gogol: un-mellow

‘Gogol Project’ mixes three Gogol short stories – review at NeonTommy.com There aren’t a whole lot of ways to make abstruse Russian literature palatable to a room full of young Echo Park hipsters, but a giant walking nose is one way to go about it. If Nikolai Gogol had written three of his most famous...

‘The Informant!’ Reviewed

Hot actors love to get frumpy for movies, and critics love them for doing it. Charlize Theron was a mulletted serial killer in Monster, Nicole Kidman had a giant plastic proboscis in The Hours, and Matt Damon creeped his way to a Golden Globe in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Now he’s doing it again in...

Killers Review – Hollywood Bowl – LA Record

A Killers concert is like a night at a European dance club: every song is an upper, strobe lights hit you from all sides, and the lyrics seem deep, though somewhat nonsensical. Are we human? Are we dancer? And who is Mr. Brightside?  It doesn’t matter, because each song is a three-minute shot of Red...