I specialize in three types of stories: themed feature packages, service stories, and profiles. You’ll find clips of all of these below.
Feature Packages
What’s the Big Idea? (Macalester Today, Summer 2010)
Trade couches for treadmills? Kick your boss to the curb? Macalester professors tackle some of the world’s biggest problems with even bigger ideas. Read more here.
Staring Down Danger (Webster University, Winter 2011)
For most of us, living dangerously is a relative term. But for the stunt actors, aerialists, and serial skydivers in this story package, the daily grind is often a life or death matter. Read more here.
What it Feels Like to Be a Minnesotan (Minnesota Monthly, July 2010)
What’s it like to win a lutefisk eating contest? Sing the national anthem in front of a sold-out Vikings game? Become a state fair icon? Minnesotans who have done just that tell the tale. Read more here.
Service Stories
When Choosing a Card, Know Your Credit Card Personality (CreditCards.com, April 2008)
Diva? Newbie? Veteran? Knowing your credit card personality can help you choose wisely from the vast array of credit cards. Read more here.
6 Financial Experts and Their Worst Goofs (Bankrate.com, August 2009)
They’re big shots now, but personal finance gurus like Dave Ramsey and Jean Chatzky racked up thousands of dollars of debt and made major financial goofs. They tell all in this story. Read more here.
Selling a Burial Plot is a Grave Decision (Kiplinger’s Retirement Report, October 2010)
File this under problems you never knew you could have: just how do you get rid of a burial plot you no longer need? Read more here.
Profiles
Yes She Can (Minnesota Monthly, May 2010)
WNBA star Lindsay Whalen brings exactly the kind of hope and change that the Minnesota Lynx need right now. Read more here.
Professional Liability (Experience Life, March 2010)
All the free food he got at work had Jason Buszta packing on the pounds – until the sudden death of a friend made him realize he was putting his own health at risk. Read more here.
Amazing Racer (Minnesota Monthly, October 2010)
Ultramarathoner Helen Lavin makes the most grueling endurance sport look easy. Read more here.
Want to see even more? I’ve also put dozens of clips, sortable by subject and publication, on my Delicious page.
