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Designing neon signs - from Broadway to your local bar: profile of Kenny Greenberg

Short video about Kenny Greenberg, a Queens-based artist who created neon scenic art and lighting for countless Broadway stage productions, feature films, television broadcasts, museum and corporate displays.

Greenberg is the founder of Krypton Neon, a Long Island City studio specializing in making neon signs.

 

Saving Cambodia's Prey Lang Forest (Huffington Post)

A look inside the criminal network ravaging Cambodia’s forests - and the community fighting to save them.

A VR documentary on deforestation in Cambodia that I co-produced with Ayesha Shakya and Mathieu Faure in the course of the Global Beat Project at NYU. We traveled deep into the Prey Lang forest and documented the patrol of locals fighting illegal loggers.

Read accompanying Huffington Post article.

 

“Death” ramps, broken elevators - obstacles to navigating New York in a wheelchair

Ashley Anderson is a sales representative, living in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Like all New Yorkers, she commutes between work and home and goes out with friends in her spare time. But the outdated city infrastructure makes these daily activities a lot more time-consuming and tricky because Ashley has to use a wheelchair.

In 2016, the nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates filed two class-action lawsuits against the MTA, in which it alleged that MTA “blatantly denied” New Yorkers with mobility impairments access to a high number of subway stations and was doing an “abysmal” job in managing existing elevators.

 

Genocide’s Legacy: A Museum in a Khmer Rouge Prison (New York Times)

A VR report for a New York Times Daily 360 series, “Genocide’s Legacy”. The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.

The story was shot by the GlobalBeat team, including myself, Rebeca Corleto, Ben Dalton, Mathieu Faure, Ashley Lyles, Ayesha Shakya and Tara Yarlagadda. The series is produced by Veda Shastri at the New York Times.

Inside a historic Cambodian building set for demolition (PBS NewsHour)

The White Building, in the downtown of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, is one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. Now, the approximately 500 families that call the White Building their home risk displacement to make room for a new development project.

This video was reported by Tara Yarlagadda and produced by the GlobalBeat team, including myself, Rebeca Corleto, Ben Dalton, Mathieu Faure, Ashley Lyles and Ayesha Shakya.

PBS NewsHour Weekend link

 

Donald Trump, Russian Media and Brighton Beach Voters

News report for the NYU Journalism 2016 election special about the voting patterns of immigrants from the former USSR in South Brooklyn.

Russian state-run TV channels that many older Brighton Beach residents watch might factor in their support of Donald Trump but it’s also the trauma of Soviet Union that makes many Russian-speaking immigrants who came to the U.S. as Jewish refugees vote Republican.

 

BBC News Reports covering Russia

 

The New Dawn for Russian Cheese

BBC World Service, radio report for the August 2, 2016 Business Daily episode “Unpacking Russia’s Economy.” Two years earlier Russia banned imports of some foreign foods, a retaliation against western sanctions. Has it boosted domestic production?

 

Doping scandal in Russian sport (segment 2)

Report for the BBC World News aired on July 28, 2016. One the multiple segments I contributed to the coverage of the ban of Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics.

 

Doping scandal in Russian sport (segment 1)

Report for the BBC World News aired on June 21, 2016. One the multiple segments I contributed to the coverage of the ban of Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics.

 

Not Only Tobacco: Gruesome Labels for Junk Food? (radio)

BBC World Service. Radio report aired as part of the Food Chain episode “Is Junk Food the New Smoking?” on May 28, 2016

 

Moscow Cats Theater Celebrates 25th Anniversary

BBC World Service, radio report aired as part of the World Update: Daily Commute show on December 25, 2015. Watch the BBC Russian Service video on the same topic.