Work Samples

This page contains writing and editing samples to accompany my application to The New York Times. 

  • Hard copies are available to download by clicking the title of the article. 

  • The original published pieces may be found by clicking on the name of the publication. Please note that some pieces are paywalled.

Edited stories

  1. “The Hunters,” by Rick Bass.
    The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2010.

  2. “An Ocean Apart,” by Erik Vance.

    The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2015
    Edited this piece of reportage on global fisheries for the Spring 2015 issue of .

    3. “Ramadi Nights,” by Neil Shea.

I submit this piece of reportage because I both wrote and edited it—then I submitted the finished piece to VQR, who published it and later offered me a contributing editor’s position based on the work. 

 

Writing samples

1. “Fly by Light.”
National Geographic news; March 6, 2015.
A profile of Betrand Piccard and his attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered aircraft.

2. “Scenes from the new Cold War unfolding at the top of the world.”
National Geographic news; May 8, 2019
Reporting on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s attempt to recast polar warming as an “opportunity,” and how rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic are increasing military and business activity—while leaving many small communities behind.

3. “Vanishing Caribou.”
National Geographic magazine; December 2023.
Deep international reporting on the decline of the Arctic’s most important land mamm