NBC San Diego Everyone Counts Campaign

In January 2015, I shot and edited video profiles of seven different San Diegans over the course of six days to launch NBC San Diego News' new campaign "Everyone Counts." We profiled a wide group of San Diegans from the homeowner to the homeless. The main spot premiered in local markets during the Super Bowl and directed viewers to view the profiles online.

TV Spot

The Job Seeker

The Taxpayer

The Homeless

The Family

The Advocate

The Voter

The Homeowner

Section 8, Zero Tolerance, and One Family on the Brink of Homelessness

As zero tolerance falls out of fashion in other sectors, a Clinton-era housing rule remains and puts families at risk of homelessness. Cheryl Canson and her two children in San Diego know the impact it can have first-hand. Because a family member committed a crime in their home, the entire family lost its Section 8 voucher and now lives in a homeless shelter. Read the story: http://vosd.org/16RnpEm

 

Healing 44th Street

Text by Megan Burks

By all accounts, 18-year-old Rickquese McCoy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He wasn't the intended target of the three men who fired 40 rounds on his City Heights block on June 30, killing a second man and critically wounding another. Rickquese's friends and family insist he wasn't involved with gangs. They'll admit "he was no angel" but point out that he had finally made the honor roll last year. The murders shook the 2600 block of 44th Street, a community where residents aren't used to seeing violent crime up so close. Everyone here knows someone who knows someone who's been robbed, assaulted or killed, but usually those crimes don't happen right on the front lawn. Residents on the block decided Rickquese would be the last of their teenagers lost. They had never been brought to the table before to talk about how to help their kids. Now, they're taking seats next to volunteers and police officers to find solutions, on their own terms. Read more at Speak City Heights, http://www.speakcityheights.org/2012/...

Wild Wild Wets Pool Party

San Diego's North Park neighborhood is home to hipsters, happenings and one of the most up and coming nightlife scenes in the city. North Park's own The Wild Wild Wets put on a summer pool party rock show that lived up to expectations. 

Collaboration by James Gregg and Sam Hodgson