Award-winning articles

Award-winning stories
Dive Bars: I helmed this package about the shot-for-a-buck saloons that populate the side streets of Chicago. (Time Out Chicago, July 19, 2007 — National Magazine Award finalist)

Down and Out: The story about meeting my childhood idol, former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Golden Richards — and watching him overdose in front of me. (Texas Monthly, December 1995; The Best American Sports Writing of 1996)

Wildfire: Some California teens camp in the forest and don’t fully extinguish their campfire. The next day, the wind blows the dirt of their still-active embers and ignites a blaze that consumes thousands of acres and dozens of homes. (Point Reyes Light, October 5, 1995; Best News Story by Weekly Newspaper, Peninsula Press Club; Best Spot News Coverage by Weekly Newspaper by California Press Association)

44 Minutes in January. I was a member of a team that extensively covered the 10th anniversary of the Brown’s Chicken murders in Palatine, Illinois. (Daily Herald, January 8-12, 2003; First place in 2003 Illinois AP Enterprise Reporting category)

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