Journalist | Editor | Podcaster
PROJECTS
Working in local news means shorter stories and bigger interests among community players. Despite this, my work has grown with a polymathic approach into an appetite for numerous subjects across different media. Having the tenacity to secure a winning photo or the determination to interview difficult sources have been among the boldest factors in producing my best works over the years.
JOURNALISM TO THE STARS
Growing up in Los Angeles with an allure to film and television brought me close to a wide variety of artists and professionals of all stripes. From painters to musicians, astronauts to activists, cosplayers to Academy Award-winning directors, there was never a dull moment working in Southern California.
ADVOCATE FOR LOCAL NEWS
The endangered existence of local news across the nation requires more journalists to pay ever greater attention to local matters. Obstacles in reporting has, throughout my career, fomented stronger senses of skepticism and independence necessary to look at local matters with any sense of sober clarity.
2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Growing up with a passion for American history and United States presidents, I have had chances in my career to witness and cover electoral politics in action. In January 2024, I joined MassLive's politics editor John L. Micek to cover the New Hampshire primary and speak with Republican supporters of the final two candidates. Getting to cover primary night itself was a fulfilling chance at coverage that I plan to repeat with the Massachusetts primary.
REPUBLICAN POLITICOS PUSH NIKKI HALEY TO DROP FROM THE 2024 PRIMARY ELECTION
January 25, 2024
Even after Nikki Haley came in second in New Hampshire, she continued her commitment to stay in the race. But most party leaders and prominent GOP voices urged the party to "unite" behind Donald Trump, with Super Tuesday still over a month away.
TRUMP PROJECTED WINNER OF N.H. PRIMARY, AP PROJECTS
January 23, 2024
Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary, the first presidential primary of the 2024 election cycle. While he polled better than Nikki Haley for weeks, she told supporters she will stay focused on her home state's primary, while Trump slammed her for staying in the race.
IN N.H., TRUMP WELCOMES DESANTIS' EXIT, AWAITS PRIMARY SHOWDOWN WITH HALEY
January 21, 2024
Ten minutes before I arrived in Rochester, New Hampshire, Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Trump. That night, we arrived at Trump's rally with supporters and talked with them about why they think he should be president again.
PROJECTS
My professional journey has rewarded me with opportunities to go beyond my goal of political journalism. It has brought me to cover community news, campus bureaucracy, significant figures and niche establishments. Below are a sampling of projects with which my passions and basic reporting came together in a perfect symphony.
'MULHOLLAND DRIVE': ANDREW AND RYAN'S HALLOWEEN REVIEW
October 31, 2023
Accompanied by my fellow reporter and native Angeleno Andrew Martinez, we reviewed the 2001 David Lynch movie "Mulholland Drive," a surreal look at the film industry and a noir mystery that takes its characters through the spooky alleyways of Los Angeles and Hollywood.
THE ANDOVER BOOKSTORE IS NOT ONLY THE OLDEST IN MASS. — IT'S THE OLDEST IN THE US
October 2, 2023
Several steps away from a sidewalk on Main Street in Andover, Massachusetts, this bookstore carries with it a long history as the oldest independent bookstore in the United States, first established the same year Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Edgar Allen Poe were born.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT 'JAWS' AUTHOR, SHARK CONSERVATIONIST PETER BENCHLEY
July 25, 2023
People remember "Jaws" for its man versus nature struggle and a fear of the water. Its author, Peter Benchley, fought back narratives that vilified sharks, eventually becoming one of their staunchest protectors long after his novel became the first cinematic blockbuster.
“I grew up in a world where the incentive to learn came from within me, as did a sense of whom to trust and whom to believe.”