The girl in the window
Reporter Lane DeGregory's Pulitzer Prize winning story of a 7-year-old girl, unable to speak or feed herself, found in a filthy, roach-infested room, her diaper overflowing. I created a low key design to showcase the amazing story and Melissa Lyttle's photos and audio. This is the most popular special report and story in the history of the Tampa Bay Times website, with 1.3 million page views since its publication in August 2008. View multimedia
59th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards: Online -- Best Use Of Multimedia First Place
Doubt
A mystery, is the right man in jail for a murder? My design was insprired by the large box of file folders that news artist Don Morris carried around as he worked on this story. View multimedia
2008 SND: Award of Excellence for Non-Breaking News
58th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards: Online -- Best Use Of Multimedia First Place New Media
Florida Society of Newspaper Editors: Multimedia: Third Place
Zoo Story
The challenge was not to give away the plot twists in this 9-part series by Thomas French. Instead the online report dealt with the larger themes and issues of a behind the scenes look at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. View multimedia
58th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards: Online -- Feature Reporting Third Place
The spark of genius
A look back at the making of Beatles' Sgt. Pepper with sound engineer Geoff Emerick by Christopher Ave. I created a 1960s influenced design and an interactive graphic identifying every person and object on the Sgt. Pepper's album cover. View multimedia
2007 SND Multimedia Design Competition: Monthly winner
Exotic wildlife next door
Wildlife owners must submit counts of their animals to the state of Florida. Using a spreadsheet with the data from the state I cleaned up the text then created a map that lets the readers see what exotic animals might be in their own neighborhood. View interactive map
Avenue Zero
A mobile friendly website for a rock band in St. Louis. The site uses jQuery and a HTML5 audio player. View multimedia
For their own good
Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore and Edmund D. Fountain tell a dark story of a reform school in Marianna, Floridia. I wanted a design that fitted the mood of the photos and stories. The design was also tailered to increase SEO sucess. View multimedia
The Space Shuttle
The final flight of space shuttle Atlantis represented the end of NASA's shuttle program. I designed this report and researched in the archives to find the stories to highlight the coverage over the years. View multimedia
More special reports:
- 9/11: Ten years later
- Pinellas Hope
- Best places to work in Tampa Bay 2011
- Best places to work in Tampa-Bay 2010
- St. Petersburg's waterfront park
- Antarctic expedition to study effects of climate change on animals
- The New All Children's Hospitial
- The golden hour: EMS rescuers race the clock after a freak accident
- Testing Grounds: Drugs are expensive. Life is cheap.
- Escape from Monkey Island
- The surrogate
- Detours: a country in search of direction
- Right by Miles
- A timeless love song
- Dark Highway
- Rx overdoses
- Interactive and video Hurricane Hunter
- From moo to you
- Melanoma is not just skin deep
- Epiphany 1906 -2006
- A day in the life of Fort DeSoto Park
- Photo essay One fine day
- Voters
- 13: Life at the Edge of Everything
- Hurricane Andrew: After the Storm
- The Deuces
- The Exorcist in Love
- The girl whose mother lives in the sky
- 28 Seconds
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