Category: Portfolio
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EDITING CLIP: Child Care Crisis Project
Our news team at the Springfield Daily Citizen pioneered a reporting partnership with KY3 News to shed light on the region’s child care crisis — a problem plaguing both families and employers in Greene County. As editor of this team and project, I was deeply involved in idea generation, story planning, execution, final presentation and…
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ENTERPRISE CLIP: Home-sewn clothes are making a comeback. But is it too late for dying fabric stores?
Lede: Fabric stores that sell threads, buttons and materials for making clothes are dwindling in San Diego, with owners shuttering their shops citing waning interest from customers. The disappearance of fabric stores is probably not a shock to outsiders — in the age of fast fashion, who still makes their own clothes?But sewing garments at…
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RETAIL CLIP: Blenders blows up: How this 31-year-old Pacific Beach surfer makes millions selling sunglasses
Lede: Chase Fisher looks like your typical Pacific Beach bro. The 31-year-old surfer is tanned and freckled, his hair gelled back to give that permanent ocean-wet vibe. With bright-colored shades slung around his neck, he looks more like a DJ than a retail entrepreneur. But Fisher is the sole owner of Blenders, a rapidly growing…
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TECH CLIP: Why San Diego missed the first wave of tech ‘unicorns,’ and what’s changing now
Lede: San Diego is a biotech town, a military town, and a tourism town. It’s not a software town, is it? After years of stagnation, San Diego is seeing a barrage of startup activity in the tech scene. In recent months, two tech startups earned billion-dollar valuations, making them the first software “unicorns” spotted locally…
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BIOTECH CLIP: New Drug, New Attitude, New Day at Pharma Co.
Lede: Its diet pill was a commercial flop that almost sent Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. to the grave. But now, following a major makeover, the company’s new experimental medicines could bring renewed life to the San Diego biotech. One medicine in particular has biotech investors buzzing, a drug that proved more effective in mid-stage human trials than…
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BIOTECH and FINANCE CLIP: Biotech Turns to China
Lede: “Local biotechs are increasingly teaming up with deep pockets in China, tapping flush investor groups that only recently became safe bets for companies guarding trade secrets. In the past 18 months, deal after deal has been announced with involvement from Chinese investors — a new trend for local life science companies that historically received very…
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TECH CLIP: Can S.D. Prosper Without a Unicorn?
Lede: “People in the local startup community like to talk about a few big topics on a regular basis: raising money, finding talent, and San Diego’s inhospitable habitat for breeding unicorns. The unicorn topic in particular repeatedly surfaces in interviews and startup events. When asked the question, “What does San Diego’s startup economy need to…
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FINANCE CLIP: Biotech Stock Watch
I’ve become the newsroom’s resident expert on financial statements and stock performance, as nearly all of San Diego’s public companies are biotechs. My quarterly report, “Bio Stocks,” launched this year, summing up the stock performance of local companies and providing analysis of that quarter’s “winners and losers.” This localized insight into public companies helps our readers…
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BREAKING NEWS CLIP: WeWork is Coming to San Diego
It can be tough to get the scoop at a weekly publication more focused on analysis than breaking news. However, by getting out of the office and plugged in to the right networks, I’m able to break stories before other news outlets. Here’s an example of when I followed a lead to discover the world’s…
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BIOTECH CLIP: Out of the Shadows
This was an exciting piece on a stealthy private biotech with a valuation that sounds too good to be true. First broken by Forbes Reporter Matthew Herper, I followed with a local in-depth look at Samumed’s larger-than-life valuation. This story won Third Place in the 2016 Excellence in Journalism Awards put on by the San Diego…