I was at Cave Spring High School yesterday morning to cover a really creative fundraiser.
The second annual “Knight’s Morning Buzz” let’s students, faculty members and teachers pay $10 for a haircut and a breakfast from Famous Anthony’s. All the money collected went to Back Creek Elementary first-grade teacher Mrs. Susan Kerns’ fight against breast [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I was at Oak Island all weekend for Memorial Day and now am on “sweeps” all week for the Times (sweeps means I have to wake up at 5 a.m. which also mean I turn into a zombie … zrz’in!).

The best part of my job is that it’s something different every day. I often find myself thinking, “Wow, I never knew I’d be here when I walked into work today.”
That “Wow” moment happened again this afternoon, as I found myself talking with Brian Frasure, a paralympic gold medalist and certified prosthetist. Brian [...]

Flooding was rampant around Roanoke yesterday and these pictures were taken from two roads in Bedford County. The photo of the road being washed away still amazes me. I had some pretty good b-roll of the flooding, but nobody was around/nobody was willing to talk on camera so I was forced to do [...]

We launched a Flash graphic today at noon that ties together all of the heroin trials that have circulated through Roanoke courts in the past few months.
I designed the graphic and was supplied the content through Mike Gangloff’s reporting on the issue. The whole thing was pulled together in under three days, which is [...]

Right now, I am writing a blog post on my brand new 15-inch Mac Book Pro, and I can unequivocally say that my old system has no right to be called a computer after using this beast.
…enter Final Cut, adios Edius!

In a previous post, I talked about how Al Jazeera English was in The Roanoke Times’ newsroom doing a story on the fading newspaper industry. They were using us as an example of a struggling yet surviving medium-sized paper.
Anyhow, here’s a link to the video. Although I was not in the video, many [...]

Today I went to William Fleming High School to tour a new school that will open this fall (the new school is built on the same campus as the old).
However, after arriving with the photographer and sitting through a short school board meeting on the opening, I found a better story. At the end [...]

Two lessons learned today…

1.) Don’t use a hard-drive camera when you’re trying to get a video done on deadline.
2.) If you’re trying to decide between chocolate-covered strawberries and strawberry shortcake, just mix them together.

Here’s the video … second voice track in as many weeks. I’m starting to feel like I’m in Broadcast Journalism class [...]