photo by Fritz Hoffmann
So Nat Geo’s Top 10 Photos just premiered in Australia and New Zealand this past Sunday and our next stop seems to be in Africa on February 28th at 8pm.
It also seems to have already been airing in Germany? Maybe someone who sprechens the Deutsches can fill me in [...]

photo by Amy Toensing
This show of ours – Nat Geo’s Top 10 Photos of 2009 – an hour-long bit on which I performed editing duties, just got a cool review out of Australia, where it will premiere Sunday night at 8:30.
Among several nice things that they had to say, there’s this:
This excellent documentary features Chris [...]

This is a piece I did as a part of a larger series toward the end of last year. Did you know about these squabbles over the Rosetta Stone? Well – if you like squabbles, welcome to squabble city.

Our group at National Geographic has four video pieces up for Webby People’s Voice awards this year.  On this site, users vote for their favorites and winners are announced early in May.  If we come out winners, I’m told we’ll get paid our $25 salary this year.  If not, me and the wife are out [...]

At work, we’ve been deemed trustworthy enough to take our dog and pony show to your personal television.
And so – every day for the next few months, I’m shooting 30 second news bits that will air in the prime time on the NG Channel. And apparently it airs during the day as well. [...]

I’ve been working on the Nat Geo News site for about… how long has it been? A couple weeks? A couple months? The time sure flies.
Here are the latest and greatest pieces I’ve cut since the last post:
Island of Red Squirrels
Crocodile Gene Map
“Lawn Mower” Dinosaur Debuts
Detector Dogs in Spain
Pandas Hungry as Bamboo [...]

I’ve just started cutting pieces for Nat Geo’s online news video division and I’ll be posting the links here, you can bet.
Here’s the first, a piece about “The Kite Runner” and what’s going on in Afghanistan, where some folks apparently don’t understand that movies aren’t real.
Which is pretty much just like here.

So the 28th Annual News & Documentary Emmys are over and done with and this is as close as I ever got to one of those statues:
And although I was dreading the 4 hours of boredom that was to follow, this happened:
Yep, that’s Jon Stewart as one of the people intro-ing Ted Koppel for his [...]

Those are our names listed in Variety along with the other broadband nominees we’re up against.
This year, they spelled my name right.
I think that means we won.

For today’s Nat Geo News podcast, we talk to Dr. Rabinowitz about his struggles creating a “jaguar corridor”, a world music critic who says there’s no such thing as world music, and I get my own voice on there this week to fill in for the vacationing Quizmaster Mat Ramsey.
The ‘cast should be [...]

Hey everybody – go download your free and brand-spankin’ new National Geographic podcasts today! Audio and video joints that are sure to enrich and inform! And that are FREE.
As for stuff I’ve actually cut, hit up the Nat Geo News podcast:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/
Today’s cast is all about how we’ll have no more Red Lobsters soon, [...]

Hi, everybody! The National Geographic News Podcast for Friday, October 13th is up and running. Check out new host Peter Standring’s vocal stylings and hear all about Paul Salopek’s time in a Sudanese prison.
Listen, won’t you?
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Casanova #5 is on its way, ladies (that’s not it to the side there, incidentally. That’s just [...]

On today’s big podcast – podcast.nationalgeographic.com/ng-news – I try my hand at interviews for the very first time ever.
I sat down and talked with Marta Gomez, a Colombian musician living here in the States and making some seriously chill music with some seriously diverse influences.
Come listen to me make a fool [...]

So the Emmys were a bust, win-wise. No statues for us. And no pictures for you since apparently I used up all my data… um… allowances just testing the whole ‘posting a pic to your blog from your phone’ thing. But when I AM able get those photos off that phone, [...]

This is a test. This is only a test.
On Monday, September 25th at around 6pm or so, if at all possible, I will be documenting my evening at the Emmys. If the Emmys turn out to be thrill a minute, there may be nothing here. If, instead, it turns out to be [...]

Today’s National Geographic News Podcast features an interview with Robert Young Pelton, author of Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror, about the lives of military contractors in Iraq. Also, a feature on musical group Amadou & Mariam.
Plus the famous Photos on the Radio featuring a Pygmy Slow Loris, and the [...]

Hello, consumers!
The new weekly National Geographic podcasts are up and running. Go get ‘em!
www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts
An interview with Brady Barr about the Crocodile Hunter’s untimely demise, a piece on Seu Jorge, and a quiz contest that will give you the chance to win… the satisfaction of a well answered quiz question.
Enjoy!

There are some new National Geographic Podcasts up here.
These audio and video ‘casts are updated every Friday, so subscribe now and so you won’t miss an episode.
Get yours while its hot!

Hey, everybody – go subscribe to the National Geographic podcasts, why dontcha? It’s not like you can hide from the world forever! Here’s some information! Take it!
This is what I’ve been bustin’ the ol’ hump on for that last couple of months at the day job (which, on Thursdays before we post, [...]

The second — yet somehow more official — National Geographic News podcast is up and running, so go get it and give it a listen and tell me what you think. There’s a big improvement between the first and second ‘cast in just about every category – mix, stories, length, etc.
Now I’m the guy [...]

Check it out: I’m totally Emmy Nominated.
From the Nat Geo site:
Nationalgeographic.com has been nominated for an Emmy in news and documentary programming — the first time the National Television Academy has opened the competition to non-traditional news outlets.
The nomination is for “Hurricane Katrina Batters Gulf Coast,” a series of 4 videos, 3 to 5 minutes [...]

I am now officially on National Geographic podcast duty. We’ll be launching sometime in July and I’ll keep you up-to-date on how that’s going.
But in the meantime, holy crap I’ve got a lot to do.

Here’s a little travelogue for those who aren’t currently driving through Utah, but wish they were.
Touring Utah’s Red-Rock Country

Though most of the videos I’ve been toiling on have been cutdowns of longer segments and shows (in order to build up our library of video), we still get to churn out some originals here and there.
Here’s another one:
Canada’s Giant Rain Forest Preserve