What exactly does a producer do?
That kind of depends, really.
I’m an Atlanta-based writer, podcast and content producer. For more than 20 years, I was with CNN and HLN as a producer, senior producer, writer, assignment editor, and a host of other things. Vague titles, I know. Simply put: I make stuff. TV, audio, writing, digital, social. There’s a home for video and audio everywhere now, so I make sure it gets to the right places for the right audience.
In 2024, I launched a podcast called Deviant, a true crime anthology/documentary series. I was also host of a show called Lost In, and have written for a series called The Opportunist. I’ve been co-host and producer of HLN’s first original true-crime podcast, and it’s television adaptation, Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders, a show that spent weeks at #1 on the Apple podcast charts. I’m also host and producer of The 2180, a storytelling series about the men and women who hike the iconic Appalachian Trail.
On television, I was a producer for both Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield, covering numerous trials and cases in the law and crime community from the Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias trials to the parole hearing and subsequent release of OJ Simpson. I’ve also written and produced for HLN’s True Crime Live with Mike Galanos, and currently I’m part of the team behind the HLN truce crime original series Real Life Nightmare, Lies, Crimes & Video and Sex & Murder.
Outside of longform television, I’ve been a producer with CNN on breaking news in the newsroom, control room and in the field. I also worked as a CNN assignment editor, a digital content strategist with J Walter Thompson advertising, and I’ve written about baseball in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, manufacturing in Mississippi, Tennessee and New Mexico, and shot, produced and edited a documentary about bluegrass music in North Georgia.