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New video: A place called Parris Island



I’d heard about a place called Parris Island, but had never gone there until last month when I participated in the Marine Educators Workshop. My video features Manny Baptista, a new Marine from Quincy.

New video: A fine balance



Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes is aiming for a title fight. The World Boxing Council rates her eighth in the world among female welterweights. Lopes, 32, stands 5-feet-7-inches with a wingspan of 70 inches.

New England Emmy Award for 2011 video



My 2011 video about Wally Walper’s weight loss has received an Emmy in the health/science program category from the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Emmy Nomination for 2010 Project on Women and Alcohol



As a 2010 Kiplinger Fellow in Public Affairs Journalism at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at Ohio State University, I produced a multimedia project on women, alcohol and drunk driving, published here and in the Quincy Patriot Ledger Sept. 25-28, 2010. The project received an Emmy nomination for a 2010 societal concerns program, by the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.