The Story Group produced this video to accompany a High Country News cover story, which I wrote and my colleague Ted Wood photographed.
Ethiopia: Bridges to Prosperity
In September 2009 I traveled to the Blue Nile Gorge to document the efforts of a U.S.-based non-profit, Bridges to Prosperity, as they completed a new bridge to replace a 400-year-old bridge named “Sebara Dildy,” which means “broken bridge” in Amharic. Here are links to a BBC The World radio piece I produced and photos I took, as well as a PARADE magazine article I wrote.
Sebara Dildy bridge, Blue Nile Gorge. Photo by Daniel Glick
Southern Sudan: A School for Street Boys
In November 2010, months before a referendum that might lead to the creation of the world’s newest nation, I traveled around Southern Sudan with videographer Anne Herbst, documenting various United Nations humanitarian projects. The Story Group produced five videos focusing on the role of gender in humanitarian action, all of which are on the GenCap YouTube site. Here is a link to one: the first day of school for boys who live on the street in Aweil, northern Bar el Ghazal:
First Day of School, Aweil, Sudan. Photo by Daniel Glick
RADIO: Difference between East Coast Baseball Fans and West Coast Baseball fans — NPR’s Morning Edition
In 1989, the year after the San Francisco Giants played the Oakland A’s in the World Series, I went to opening day in Oakland to hear people gloat, and complain, about the state of West Coast baseball. One of the highlights of my career was having Bob Edwards say my name.
Other online publications
The growth in Colorado’s oil and gas industry has overwhelmed state inspectors. In this investigative look into why the state’s air quality is so bad, a former air quality inspector whistleblower and several scientists articulate the system’s many failures.
Oh, Canada! is a hard look at how Canadian pension managers invested in fracking operations in Colorado, with distinctly un-neighborly results.
When Your Neighborhood Goes ‘Boom’ is a lengthy investigative feature in High Country News that looks at an explosion at an oil and gas site in “Welled County” Colorado that “could’ve been like an atomic bomb going off,” according to one of the site supervisors working that night of December 22, 2017. If you think that state and federal regulators are looking out for you, read this… UPDATE: This story won the National Press Foundation’s Thomas L. Stokes award for energy and environmental writing
I’ve always been confused about how climate change deniers make sense of their world view. Then I realized I had some of my own cognitive dissonance to contend with. Here’s a piece I published on the subject in the Washington Post: What being a football fan taught me about climate change deniers.
I wrote an investigative series about what I have come to see as a carbonocracy in my adoptive state of Colorado. The oil and gas industry has a stranglehold on the legislature and runs roughshod over local communities that are seeking ways to slow or stop hydraulic frackturing, or “fracking,” near their homes and children’s schools. The series, Fractured, was produced in conjunction with my colleague Ted Wood at The Story Group and published in The Colorado Independent. Here’s a link to a radio interview I did about one of these stories on KGNU. Fractured won a first-place investigative series prize from both the Colorado Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Here is a piece I wrote for Biographic.com about how the Brazilian Amazon forest is responding to climate change, and what that means for us. It’s a wonderful example of how multimedia journalism, incorporating video and photos and graphics, can be used to tell compelling stories.