APME Innovator of the Year 2014

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune was nominated for the Associated Press Media Editors‘ 2014 Innovator of the Year.

I lead the effort and helped produced a video to convince APME voters why the Herald-Tribune deserved the award.

Check out the (shortened) trailer here:

 

And here’s the full five-minute pitch:

And my favorite, the Dick Vitale teaser:

 

What’s In Store video series debuts

My retail blog and column brand, What’s In Store, expanded to include a weekly video series this week.

Every week I’ll take readers on a tour of a new store or give them retail news that is unique to the coverage we do in print and on the blog.

“Check back every week for a round up of the top retail news through a new video series with retail reporter, Justine Griffin.

Interested in being apart of the What’s in Store video series? Pitch your story ideas to Justine directly by emailing her here.”

The Cost of Life: Video diaries and documentary video

The Cost of Life featured 26 videos, which served as supplemental material to the narrative written story. The videos included personal diary entries recorded by Justine Griffin and J. David McSwane, and professional documentary footage shot by photographer, Elaine Litherland.

To see more video diary footage, click here.

Justine Griffin and David McSwane learning how to do the hormone injections. 

Justine Griffin and her mother giving hormone injections. 

Justine Griffin and her loved ones on the retrieval surgery day.