EMMY®-Winning/Nominated Work
2025 Northwest Emmy® Award Regional Nominee: Continuing Coverage: ‘The Storm That Changed Everything’: Nominated for assistant news director role in overseeing continuing coverage, including investigative reporting efforts, after former Typhoon Halong devastated Western Alaska.
2023 Suncoast Chapter Emmy® Award Nominee: News Special: ‘Hurricane Ian: Still Standing’: Nomination for executive producing & production of 30 min. Hurricane Ian documentary-style news special telling storm's formation, impact & aftermath story using perspectives of WFTX's team of journalists and meteorologists.
2022 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Award Nominee: Weather, Long Form Content: ‘Two Years Later: Memorial Day Tornado Outbreak of 2019’: Nomination for executive producer role of weather investigative special report revealing how two years after 2019’s devastating Memorial Day Tornado outbreak most of those impacted in Ohio’s Miami Valley region by the $1 Billion storms were uninsured. However a lack of data made it impossible to quantify the numbers of people who needed help.
2022 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Award Nominee: Military - News: ‘9/11 Twenty Years Later: Miami Valley Gold Star Families Reflect on Sons’ Service and Sacrifice’: Executive producer of special report featuring four Gold Star family’s perspectives two decades after their sons joined the military two decades after the 9/11 attacks.
2021 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Award Winner: Weather (News, Long Form Content): ‘Memorial Day Tornado Impact - One Year Later’: Win for executive producer role of weather investigative report one year after the Memorial Day Tornado Outbreak, as hundreds of residents of Ohio’s Miami Valley-area were still struggling to recover, including how the pandemic stalled the rebuilding process, and one family’s emotional journey after an EF4 tornado destroyed their home.
2021 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Nomination: Investigative -Single Report: ‘The Death Of Takoda Collins’: Nomination for executive producer role overseeing multi-month, long from investigation exposing system communication failures between multiple agencies which, multiple sources say, led to a 10 year old’s child abuse death; Reporting is now the impetuous for a potential law change in how agencies charged with protecting children must share information.
2021 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Nomination: News Special: ‘Meeting The Challenge: Dayton Stays Strong’: Served as executive producer for this documentary-style news special using community members first hand experiences following some of Dayton’s most historic news events. As the community attempts to recover from its’ largest single day tornado outbreak and a mass shooting, they must rely on their history of strength for guidance as the pandemic and demand for social justice reform movement intertwine with the tornado and shooting recovery.
2021 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Nomination: Continuing Coverage: ‘Oregon District Mass Shooting: One Year Later’: Served as executive producer of this special production of coverage one year after a mass shooting in Dayton’s historic Oregon District killed nine people and injured dozens of others; Community-based coverage, focused primarily on remembering those lost, uncovering untold survivor stories, and investigating the shooter’s past and a possible attack motive.
2021 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Win: Breaking News: ‘The Oregon District Mass Shooting’: Executive producer/primary newsroom manager overseeing mass shooting coverage, which left nine dead, 27 injured, and extensively impacted the community.
2020 Ohio Valley Chapter Regional Emmy® Nomination: Investigative Report-Single Story: ‘Parents Question District’s Role In P.E. Teacher Misconduct Case’: Served as executive producer of investigation uncovering school district’s role in covering up elementary teacher’s sexual abuse against 88 first grade girls, and a lack of a state law requiring sexual abuse prevention education
2014-2015 Chicago/Midwest Regional Emmy® Win: Outstanding Achievement for Media Interactivity: Win for expanding investigative reporting series work to social media interactivity on Madison's growing heroin deaths & gang activity influencing Madison's crime trends. After the stories aired, coverage continued online, facilitating conversations between viewers, recovering addicts & a former gang member. The full investigations/conversations are below.
At the base of Madison’s erupting violence, police records show a dramatic increase over the last decade in known gang members charged with committing crimes. (2/3/15)
If you think gangs are not a problem in Wisconsin, we've uncovered some alarming details of new issues, including gang activity in schools and the spread of gang activity throughout the area. We have the rare opportunity to talk to a former gang member who shares his perspective.
As Wisconsin’s heroin epidemic took hold of Dane County, and made it one of the most problematic areas in the state, the number of overdose deaths increased dramatically. That 1,233 percent surge in heroin killing mostly young men in their teens and 20s can be seen by looking at what has happened since the turn of the millennium. Public Health Madison and Dane County numbers show Dane County heroin deaths increasing from three in 2000 to 40 in 2013. Numbers for 2014 have not yet been finalized. (Feb. 16, 2015)
No one thinks they'll become a heroin addict. But the truth is, Dane County's epidemic is one of the worst in Wisconsin. We're talking with Skye Tikkanen, a former addict AND the assistant director at Connections Counseling. What would you like to know about heroin in our community?