Greater Phoenix Area
- National media correspondent: Enterprising 13-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, currently serving as CBS News Senior Transportation and National Correspondent. Previously was CBS News Congressional Correspondent and Transportation Correspondent. Investigative reporting led to congressional action to address life-threatening auto safety issue - Multimedia storyteller: Creative video and digital content storyteller who leads creative, editorial, and marketing decisions across traditional and new media platforms - Crisis communications expert: Investigative reporter with vast experience covering major corporate crises and incidents, including interviewing high-profile executives and working with corporate communications teams - Team leader & manager: Results-oriented manager who empowers teams to juggle multiple roles and projects at once under unimaginably tight deadlines - Media & communications expert: Deep understanding of major political, economic and social issues and how they interplay in today’s fast-changing media environment and public-private dialogue - Professional networker: Two decades of contacts across the media landscape as well as throughout the transportation industry and Capitol Hill
- Lead coverage of aviation and transportation issues, including breaking news and investigative stories including major transportation accidents and innovations -Report on wide range of stories across the west including politics, severe weather, and breaking news of national interest. - Create and execute budgeting, booking, production, and marketing strategies for high-profile interviews, special coverage and in-depth investigations - Work closely with producers, social media teams as well as corporate communications teams, executives and external agencies during coverage of breaking news, investigative reporting and feature pieces to tell fair, accurate and visually compelling stories
-Report on wide range of issues and breaking news of national importance.
- Develop daily original video and digital content for CBS News’ audience of 15+ million viewers, including CBS Mornings, CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Radio and CBS News Streaming Network (formerly CBSN) - Cover the 117th Congress, including the January 6th attack on the Capitol, impeachment, the bipartisan Infrastructure bill, budget reconciliation and efforts to regulate technology platforms. - Led a six-year series of investigative reports exposing life-threatening vehicle safety issue and prompted congressional action in 2021 to address it. Has potential to save dozens of lives annually. - Synthesize complex political and public policy issues into clear, digestible, easy to understand reports
- Maintained and expanded WJLA’s long-running “7 On Your Side” consumer investigative brand; successfully recovered almost $100,000 for consumers and brought facts to light that led to arrest and prosecution of scammers - Led editorial for and anchored hour-long evening newscast on sister station NewsChannel8 - Traveled overseas to tell locally-focused stories during the U.S. war in Afghanistan
- Pitched and produced promotable stories from start to finish aimed at increasing key, high-worth audience demographics in the San Diego DMA - Created, fostered, and maintained deep connections with communications officers and sources in the San Diego area - both public and private - to tell compelling stories to XETV-TV viewers - Covered breaking news across the San Diego area, often writing urgent, accurate copy in matter of minutes
- Covered U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force installations across Colorado as the state’s only dedicated, full-time TV military beat reporter - Created and maintained relationships within the military community to tell up-to-date, accurate stories related to the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan
- Co-Created and built national syndication and content distribution system across Tribune Broadcasting group’s nationwide network - including stations in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago - Pitched and produced innovative live stream news-reality event using nationally recognized talent to portray the importance of the Internet