Features work
Here's an overview of some recent features work I've compiled over the years. Work includes narratives about how one York resident turned a stamp hobby into a multi-million dollar auction house to in-depth, enterprise work on what happens when Western Pa. communities lose their local newspapers.
An in-depth look at the growing threat of news deserts in Western Pennsylvania.
-100 Days in Appalachia
A conversation with Boulder Creek resident Gordon Rudy, 62, who helped save his neighborhood during the CZU Fire in 2020.
-Lookout Santa Cruz
'Fermenting bad behavior': An inside look at how Santa Cruz's craft beer scene is handling its #metoo movement
-Lookout Santa Cruz
'The kegs are kicked': How the pandemic has been costly for Pa. craft breweries.
-Beaver County Times/USA Today Network
How one married couple in central Pennsylvania took it upon themselves to rebuild the forgotten rail town of Seitzland.
-York Daily Record
A nirvana for nerds hidden in York, Pa. How Ted Hake turned a hobby into a multi-million dollar auction house.
-York Daily Record
How the pandemic has become comic books' greatest villain
-USA Today
How this little pizza shop in Delta, Pa became the 'Nicest Place in America'
-York Daily Record