2020 Delaware Teacher of the Year Rebecca Vitelli shares what inspires her as an educator and what she hopes for the students that she teachers.
We asked elementary school students in Caesar Rodney School District what it means to be kind during Kindness Week February 2020. Their perspective went a long way in reminding our team how we should treat our fellow Delawareans as COVID lockdowns began a month later.
Parents as Teachers participant Krystal Black shares how the program has affected her life. From being in active addiction while homeless and pregnant with her first child, to having an apartment of her own with a support system of caring, early education professionals.
I accompanied News Journal reporter Jeff Mordock on a week-long assignment in Parkersburg, West Virginia where we spoke to residents, local officials and former DuPont employees on the affects of C8 and PFOAs on the health and well-being of the community. Their stories were weaved together into a video that previewed the project.
Video Editing/Production
On June 23, 2011, former pediatrician Earl Bradley was convicted on 14 counts of rape, seven counts of assault, and three counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Five years later, News Journal reporters and photographers examined the lasting impacts of Bradley’s actions. In my role as video content strategist, I helped to plan and execute the video storytelling and took those separate video assets and combined them into a cohesive narrative.
Photography
Patients are treated on the first floor and outside of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu the day after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook Nepal. The quake was the second major quake in under three weeks. — Photo by Daniel Sato, Gannett
5/11/15 9:10:20 AM — Kathmandu, Nepal — Workers salvage a desk from a collapsed building in Kathmandu, Nepal Monday, May 11, 2015. — Photo by Daniel Sato, Gannett
Local Nepali acted as intake operators and translators during a clinic at Khwopa Higher Secondary School in Bhaktapur Saturday. This is the team’s first trip since responding to the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. — Photo by Daniel Sato, Gannett
Fire crews battle a house fire in unit block of McMahon Drive in Glasgow.
News Journal reporter Ashley Barnas adds sand to a pile as Darrell O’Connor (middle) and Tom Scanlon (back) grab pails of water to help compact the sand for sandcastle building during the 34th annual Sandcastle Contest at Rehoboth Beach.
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Lincoln High School wrestling coach Mike McGivern gets a view of the action during the 135 lb match between Lincoln’s Colby Tofanelli and Roosevelt’s Chad Lowman.
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Andrew Johnson, left, knocks Geno Cummings off of the log during an exhibition of lumberjack events at the Liberty Block Party on Friday.
Hodgson senior Octivia Booker wins the girls long jump with a distance of 18.2 1/2 at the Blue Hen Conference track and field meet held at Appoquinimink High Tuesday.
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Tatnall wide receiver Cameron Easton eyes the ball while being defended by Friends senior Devonte Church before taking it 49 yards for a touchdown.
Bradford Wason and Drew Osberg launched their offbeat venture, Ugly Outfitters, and have already received orders from across the country. The company is based out of the coIN Loft in Wilmington.
DNREC secretary Colin O’Mara swings down the first Tarzan swing at Go Ape Treetop Adventure, located at Lums Pond State Park. The course is the state’s first zipline treetop adventure and ropes course.
Fireworks light up the sky during the Fourth of July celebration at Tubman-Garrett park in Wilmington.
