The numbers, with their receipts

Industry impact.

Every claim here is either backed by a public source you can click, or labeled as a first-person account of rooms I was in. That's the standard I hold my portfolio to. It's the standard I hold information systems to.

The Stream launch night coverageWatch: the launch-night coverage
Al Jazeera English · The Stream · 2011
RTS 2012
Innovative News Award, Royal Television Society

A show built to treat social platforms as journalistic sources, launched on a 250-million-household network the night the bin Laden raid broke. The founding team rebuilt the first broadcast overnight and put the man who unknowingly live-tweeted the raid on air, his follower count climbing on screen. The full story.

Award: Royal Television Society via Al Jazeera, 2012 ↗ · launch-night detail: first-person account
HuffPost Live panelWatch: the trans-military panel
HuffPost Live · 2012 to 2013
Webby 2013
Network honors won by HuffPost Live, where I produced daily · Webby 2013 + Mashable's Biggest Innovation in Media, 2012

The streaming-first newsroom where I produced panels years ahead of their policy fights: PrEP six months after FDA approval, trans service members four years before the Pentagon moved. The network's launch era collected the industry's innovation honors while we shipped it live, daily.

Sources: The Webby Awards, 2013 ↗ · Mashable 2012 via record ↗
America With Jorge RamosWatch: the showreel
Fusion · America With Jorge Ramos · 2013 to 2015
44 min
Live Mandela special on the night of his death, produced end to end

Senior Producer on the flagship weekly of the ABC/Univision joint venture through its steepest growth window. Network primetime viewership grew 179% year to date at Fusion's two-year mark, a network-level figure, as distribution hit nearly 40 million households. Full episodes, election specials, and the live Mandela special, produced end to end.

Source: Adweek TVNewser, 2015 ↗
The measles videoWatch: the measles piece
AJ+ · 2016 to 2018
50M
Views on a single two-minute piece of policy journalism

AJ+ was one of the biggest social news video publishers on Facebook back then. I ran a team inside it while its content hit 500 million weekly viewers, reporting that from the inside. My biggest piece, the measles explainer, pulled 50 million views and 40,000+ comments. Here's how it was engineered.

500M
weekly viewers, team era (internal figure)
Top 5
Facebook News & Politics publisher globally, Tubular Labs 2017
Publisher scale: Tubular Labs via Al Jazeera pressroom ↗ · view counts: internal platform analytics, first-person
Broadcast frame with lower-third reading Mitchell Williams, Senior Producer, AJ+
the credential, as broadcast.
San Juan Mayor during Hurricane MariaWatch: Maria, in the field
AJ+ · Hurricane Maria · 2017
On the ground
Field production during active hurricane conditions

I field-produced San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz right after Hurricane Maria hit. Her criticism of the federal response became one of the defining media stories of the disaster. Congress opened oversight hearings on FEMA. Journalism that hit the public record while the water was still standing.

Context: PBS NewsHour, 2017 ↗ · field role: first-person account
HuffPost Live eraRead: the coalition story
#FreeAhmed Coalition · 2026
10 days
From CPJ going public to a journalist's release

When journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was detained in Kuwait, I joined his former colleagues amplifying the Committee to Protect Journalists' #FreeAhmed campaign alongside IFJ, Amnesty International, and his legal team. He was acquitted on the central charge and released in late April 2026. The story, told carefully.

Source: Committee to Protect Journalists, April 2026 ↗ · coalition role: first-person
AJ+ documentary shortWatch: the craft that trained them
The talent pipeline · AJ+ and after
Emmy · Webby
Won by producers I coached into on-camera careers

The production line behind the viral era was also a talent pipeline. Producers I coached from behind-camera roles went on to front their own award-winning work.

Mara Van Ells: Webby People's Voice, 2018, for an AJ+ Holocaust-survivor piece. Yara Elmjouie: Daytime Emmy (Outstanding Lifestyle Program) and Webby honors for Al Jazeera work.

Sources: The Webby Awards ↗ · Al Jazeera, 2023 ↗