More Recent Radio Work

Here’s another long overdue post with my latest. Most of this got done from my bedroom closet-studio. Two 2-ways on Rolling Blackouts Michael Wara 8/15/20 — I’m proud of this one because it was all mine. I was solo on a weekend the morning after the rolling-blackouts so I had to book, edit, produce, and […]

We won a regional Murrow!

Our coverage of the Kincade Fire won in the Breaking News category. It was my week on-air in the mornings so I played a big part in it. That’s me hosting under Region 2/Large Market. I also helped explain how the fire started and celebrated the evacuees’ return. Mad credit to the reporters who contributed […]

How I spent my shelter-in-place/work-/teach-cation

It was nice to be essential—for about a week! Positives: driving into downtown San Francisco and parking for free. Negatives: zero lunch options, being afraid of colleagues, sudden-onset hypochondria. Soon I knew it was time to drag the show into remote production, to get everyone except the steadfast engineers out of the newsroom. Considering the […]

Recent Radio Work

Here’s a long overdue post with my latest work in audio, mostly for KQED.  Orinda Shooting, live field reporting, 11/1/19 — I went live a lot that morning, starting at 5:30am. Here are some select hits: for The California Report statewide segment, for the local newscast on the hour, and on KQED’s call-in show, Forum.  […]

More digital video for NBCBayArea

Day turns for NBCBayArea.com. Look what a difference a new template makes! My improvised template was much harder to work with: Steelhead Rescue Giving Stump Stomper Mural New and improved template from NBC HQ: Women’s Mosque Methane Drones Cash-Free Restaurant Peeps Dioramas

New job!

Just started, but not wasting time. This first-person package got mad play online and picked up by NBC affiliates across the country. A quirky presidential primary story for Presidents’ Day? Just what the station ordered! And I didn’t fall off the roof. In retrospect, I see a bazillion errors, but you do what you can with […]