Meredith Hogan is an award-winning, experienced producer using video, photography and interactivity. She is a worker-manager, excelling at hands-on directing, producing and editing, as well as managing projects using small, efficient teams that offer high production value. She cultivates creative talent, helping storytellers find their best visuals and most compelling narratives.Since founding Blue Heron Media, she has helped corporations, educators, foundations and media outlets with a range of marketing, communications and documentary productions ranging from podcasting to virtual events and upcoming, her first feature-length documentary film.Meredith was formerly the Executive Producer of Verse, an interactive visual storytelling publication and platform, launched in 2015. As employee two, she helped shape the business and software. Her primary role was curating interactive documentaries with her network of award-winning photographers and videographers. Several of these productions won awards from the Webbys to POYi. In addition, she was a product manager, evangelizing and teaching the software to major clients like Grey, Discovery, McClatchy, The Las Angeles Times, Bloomberg, among others, and shaping improvements with the technical team.Previously, she was a senior multimedia editor for special projects at NBCNews.com, formerly MSNBC.com. In that role, Meredith commissioned stories from freelancers and picture agencies and worked with staff multimedia journalists and wire services to produce multimedia projects across various sections of NBCNews.com. She established an extensive network of both domestic and international freelancers.Meredith's production experience runs the gamut of multimedia story telling. From producing documentary projects reported over years to hustling to cover breaking news of the moment, Meredith uses the multimedia tools that are best for the story. Also, she is well versed in the licensing issues presented by each medium. Meredith's projects earned recognition from organizations such as the Online News Association, Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association.Meredith travels to workshops and conferences to share her knowledge of multimedia production and the freelance and agency marketplace for multimedia reporting.