Edythe McNamee

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Hawaii: The state that doesn’t vote

Published on CNN.com, Oct 24, 2012. Read on CNN.com. This video accompanied the first installment of CNN opinion reporter John Sutter‘s new column “Change The List”. (Check out the introduction article here). From Sutter’s article “Hawaii: The state that doesn’t vote”: “This little election-minded romp through paradise was part of a new CNN effort called Change the List. [...]

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Undecided: Radical for Jesus, dubious of Romney

Published on CNN.com, October 5, 2012. Read on CNN.com. And check out the whole series. This video was shot as part of a series about undecided voters during the 2012 presidential election. As everyone knows, our nation’s electoral college system of voting means that many states’ votes are counted – figuratively of course – before election day. [...]

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Undecided: Can this Latino voter find a home?

Published on CNN.com, October 5, 2012. Read on CNN.com. And check out the whole series. This video was shot as part of a series about undecided voters during the 2012 presidential election. As everyone knows, our nation’s electoral college system of voting means that many states’ votes are counted – figuratively of course – before election [...]

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Saving Aesha

Published on CNN.com, May 20, 2012. Read on CNN.com. Reporter Jessica Ravitz had been following this story for more than a year before I was assigned to join her. I can’t post the whole text story here, but her story is definitely worth reading, and of course the video I was able to shoot would not [...]

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Ring around the country: Nine days in Iceland

Another first-person travel story, with accompanying photo gallery and video, this time for CNN. Published on CNN.com, September 6, 2011. Read on CNN.com. An email went around the newsroom asking for contributions to iReport’s “Destination Adventure” series, and one of the countries they were looking to feature was Iceland, a country I had just booked [...]

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100 years of inaugurations in 2 minutes

Published on CNN.com, January 16, 2013. View on CNN.com.

I pulled together this little mash-up for the 2012 presidential inauguration. We ran one version during the week before the inauguration, than added a few moments from this year’s ceremony and re-featured it.

A video like this looks very simple to produce, but it was actually a bigger task than expected. The editing part was very straight-forward, but finding all of those clips was an adventure in the BETA section of the archives. Then once we get into pre-CNN history, I needed to make sure everything I used was in the public domain or get permission from the copyright holder if it wasn’t. It’s a pretty normal checklist for a mash-up, but you can’t be too careful when it comes to copyright.

Role: Producer, Editor