BioMy 30th birthday proved to be a turning point not because it brought a revelation about my future. Instead, a simple, thoughtful gift from my wife changed its course. She gave me an original 1974 copy of "All The President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The film version had been a favorite and made me want to become a reporter. At this point in my life, I had been out of journalism for more than three years. Reading the tale of two journalists taking down a president and the book's much more detailed account of their reporting and the the scope of the crimes by Nixon and his acolytes reinvigorated my interest in journalism. Later that year, I applied to the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism and in September 2007 began my master's degree. I finished my degree in December 2008, then spent three months interning at Bloomberg News in New York before being hired to a full-time position in April. This site comprises a mixture of my graduate school work and my career at Bloomberg and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Enjoy. Matt Townsend Experience Internships: Software Skills: Final Cut, Flash, Photoshop, InDesign (pdf), Dreamweaver & Soundslides. |
MultimediaThe Wineification of Beer: The movement to change the way people think about beer has many devotees. Check out my final project for grad school here. Bike Boom: This solo class project uses video, photography and sound to chronicle the growing bike business in New York City. Published on New York City News Service. Watch here. "I'm Tottenham 'Til I Die": British football fans flock to a Brooklyn bar to watch not powerhouses Manchester United or Chelsea, but Spurs. I took the pictures and designed the Web site for this group class project. Watch here. Buying the American Dream in Ecuador: As part of a class project on immigration in Queens, I did a story with two classmates on Corona Queens. I wrote the story, produced the audio slide show and took most of the pictures. Watch here. Pub Crawling for Obama:On the Saturday night before New York's primary, which was part of Super Tuesday, a handful of New Yorkers bar hopped to canvass for Sen. Barack Obama. I took the pictures and recorded the audio. Watch the audio slideshow here.
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