My Career & Resume
I’ve worked in media since 2006, starting as a freelance sports and outdoors journalist only months after graduating high school. It was a launching pad for perpetual learning, growth and adaptation in a constantly evolving media landscape, and my two decades in the industry have equipped me with a broad skillset.
My journalism and media career has featured a little of everything, from newspapers, magazines and broadcast to online news, digital analytics, social media content creation and brand management. Later, I co-hosted & produced podcasts, and expanded my repertoire to include live streaming, video production and editing.
More recently, I’ve begun appearing on-camera in various roles. I was featured in a nationally televised documentary, and have been an analyst and guest host on vodcasts. I am currently an audience-facing content creator for a true crime social media channel.
Criminally Obsessed (Sinclair Television)
I joined true crime channel Criminally Obsessed looking for a change after nearly a decade in the daily news grind. Crime and courts were my journalism niche, so I was eager to apply my skills and expertise in that field while expanding my storytelling arsenal.
Senior Producer | April 2024 - Present
As senior producer, I create high-engagement true crime content that has helped grow the channel from launch to more than 1.5 million followers across major platforms in the process.
Responsibilities include:
Identifying and pitching trending true crime stories aligned with audience interests across social platforms
Producing short- and long-form video content and image-driven storytelling for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok
Researching cases, gathering source material, and developing scripts and story structures
Editing video and graphics to maximize engagement and performance
Monitoring analytics to guide editorial strategy and optimize reach
ABC News 4 (WCIV-TV)
The most significant professional development of my career came during my nine years at ABC News 4, where I advanced from a daily newscast producer, to digital executive producer and special projects manager.
As the brand has grown, I have taken on an expanded leadership role within the team. I now lead editorial meetings, help determine coverage priorities, edit and proof content for quality, and mentor fellow producers on social-first storytelling techniques tailored to each platform and audience.
Special Projects Manager | February 2022 - March 2024
My role was to oversee special news content from concept to completion across all platforms. This included a wide and demanding set of responsibilities, including:
Identify and develop feature story topics for special coverage initiatives
Plan and execute multi-platform editorial strategies across digital, social, audio and broadcast
Select and manage project teams
Coordinate assignments, production workflows, and editorial timelines
Establish communication and asset-management protocols across departments
Provide editorial oversight, quality control, and proofreading
Track audience engagement and performance metrics to measure project impact
In this role, I gained valuable staff management and project leadership experience while also pursuing opportunities for growth, innovation and creative experimentation to buck the constraints of traditional TV news and reinforce the vital role of local journalism in a new media frontier.
Featured Projects
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An Edward R. Murrow Award–winning investigative project examining the complex web of corruption, financial crime, and murder surrounding disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh. The project became a major driver of multiplatform audience growth and engagement.
The centerpiece was a documentary-style podcast launched under the station’s Unsolved South Carolina banner. The series has engaged more than five million listeners and viewers worldwide as it expanded into a multimedia franchise including live YouTube coverage, nightly podcast discussions, television segments, and high-performing social media storytelling across platforms.
The success of the project led corporate leadership to tap our team to help replicate the model at stations across the country. -
Finding Brittanee Drexel is an investigative podcast and multimedia series exploring one of South Carolina’s most notorious missing person cases—the 2009 disappearance and murder of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel.
Through long-form podcast storytelling, broadcast reporting, and digital coverage, our team examined the case from multiple angles: Brittanee’s life and disappearance, the years-long investigation that followed, and the consequences of missteps in the search for answers. The project remains one of the most meaningful efforts of my career, combining deep investigative reporting with storytelling aimed at bringing clarity and accountability to a case that captured national attention.
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Bring Them Home was a long-form documentary series highlighting unsolved missing person cases in the Charleston, South Carolina region. Each installment centered on a half-hour documentary produced for broadcast and YouTube, with additional storytelling adapted for podcast platforms.
The reporting and storytelling were led by WCIV anchor Mel Orlins, while I helped coordinate research, fact-checking, production logistics, and promotion across a rotating team of producers, photojournalists, and editors working on the series.
ABC News 4 (WCIV-TV)
Executive Producer - Digital Content | December 2017 - January 2022
I led the station’s digital content strategy, oversaw website and social media publishing, and managed a four-person team responsible for producing daily online content. During my tenure, WCIV’s digital platforms experienced sustained growth and evolved from an afterthought into a powerhouse digital news brand in the Charleston market.
Key Responsibilities:
Directed day-to-day digital publishing and editorial strategy
Supervised and mentored digital content team
Developed multi-platform distribution strategies across web, social media, video, and mobile
Used analytics and audience data to guide editorial decisions and platform strategy
Led search engine optimization (SEO) efforts to increase organic discovery and traffic
Coordinated digital coverage for breaking news and major editorial initiatives
Website Growth:
Annual users grew from 2.8 million to 9.4 million
Annual pageviews increased from 11.5 million to more than 32 million
Returning visitors rose from 490K to 1.64 million
Direct traffic increased from 641K to 2.47 million
Video views climbed from 707K to 2.4 million annually
Social Media Performance:
Grew social audiences and engagement across all platforms while consistently outperforming local competitors with larger staffs
Elevated the station’s social presence from 4th in market rankings to an undeniable No. 2, challenging for No. 1
In 2019, the station ranked No. 1 in Charleston news media on Facebook in three major performance metrics:
Audience interaction rate
Follower growth (+44,500)
Video views (67.9M)
Digital Strategy & Innovation:
As social media algorithms evolved, I led the team in adapting our distribution strategy beyond a Facebook-first model. We expanded into YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok while strengthening search-driven traffic through improved SEO practices.
By prioritizing organic search optimization, we increased search referrals from 775K annually to more than 2.5M. SEO improvements included headline optimization, keyword-rich URLs, improved internal linking, and expanded metadata practices.
FBI informant story about Tim Taylor
'just wasn't true,' prosecutor says
'Actual bias' in jury tampering key to Alex Murdaugh murder retrial hearing
Earlier Career
News Producer | ABC News 4 | April 2015 - November 2017
After being laid off from my newspaper job, I pivoted from print journalism to broadcast news. joining WCIV-TV as a newscast producer. The learning curve was steep, but the challenge pushed me to quickly master the fast-paced, high-pressure environment of live television production.
Through persistence and constant repetition, I progressed from a rookie producer struggling to find my footing into one of the newsroom’s most trusted producers, regularly selected by veteran anchors and newsroom leadership to produce key broadcasts. By the final months of my tenure, I had been promoted to managing producer for our night shift operation, and was nominated for a regional Emmy Award and recognized as Producer of the Year in the Carolinas.
Producing television news strengthened my skills in deadline-driven storytelling, time management, and team communication, while sharpening my writing and editorial decision-making under pressure. The experience taught me there’s no skill I can’t learn and no challenge I can’t conquer.
Associate Editor | The Press and Standard | July 2011 - January 2015
I assisted the managing editor in planning, producing and copy editing all news, feature, opinion, sports, outdoors and lifestyle content for print and website publishing. My primary responsibilities were news, sports, education, feature and column writing for the print edition, news and sports photography, long-form feature writing and photo essays for our quarterly magazines, page design, web publishing, social sharing and headline writing.
The role taught me the necessity of being multi-skilled and adaptable, sharply honed my reporting skills, forged my journalistic ethics, and ignited my passion for both photography and creative writing.