Film and Television

Two decades of producing, directing, and shooting for public television and national outlets — news, documentary, and long-form science reporting. Much of the earlier work was recovered from an archived portfolio site, so the source links point wherever each piece originally lived.

PBS NewsHour

2018

The junk news investigation

Series Producer

A four-part investigative series on junk news, built on software written in the newsroom to find and track misinformation sources at scale. The reporting identified clickbait publisher Cyrus Massoumi. The tool behind it, NewsTracker, became Junkipedia — and the reason a journalist ended up running a technology institute.

  • Newhouse Mirror Award
2018

What is the NewsTracker?

Producer, Writer

How the newsroom built a tool to identify and track sources of misinformation across social media. Published April 25, 2018.

2012

Alan Alda is Trying to Find the Next Carl Sagan

Producer, Cinematographer

Miles O'Brien reports on a contest created by Alan Alda challenging scientists to answer a seemingly simple question: what is a flame?

2012

Will 'Bionic Bodies' Offer High-Tech Hope to the Disabled?

Producer, Cinematographer

A new generation of artificial body parts helping people see, walk, swim, grip, and run.

2012

Chimpanzee Testing: Is It the Beginning of the End?

Producer, Cinematographer

Medical experiments on chimpanzees can be invasive. Some say they are the only way to advance medicine. Miles O'Brien reports.

2012

How Tough Is It to Build a Dirty Bomb?

Producer, Cinematographer

Miles O'Brien examines the threat radiological weapons pose to U.S. cities, and what is being done to prevent an attack.

2012

Internet Voting: Will Democracy or Hackers Win?

Producer, Cinematographer

Why elections have not moved online, and the security research that explains it. An early sign of where this career was heading.

2012

Are U.S. Nuclear Plants Ready for a Fukushima-Like Meltdown?

Producer, Cinematographer

After Fukushima, how should regulators set the safety bar for nuclear power plants in the U.S.?

2012

In Austin, Charged Up About Smart Power

Producer, Cinematographer

Miles O'Brien examines grid reliability in an Austin neighborhood using smart grid technology to track and control energy consumption.

2012

Spare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More

Producer, Cinematographer

A research breakthrough enabling scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs. Miles O'Brien reports.

2012

Is Technology Wiring Teens to Have Better Brains?

Producer, Cinematographer

What may be happening to teenagers' brains as they develop in a rapid-fire, multitasking world.

2011

A: This Computer Could Defeat You at 'Jeopardy!' Q: What is Watson?

Producer, Cinematographer

Miles O'Brien goes head-to-circuit-board with IBM's Watson to explore the limits of language and machine intelligence.

2010

Former Factory Town in Iowa Eyes Green Future, Improved Livability

Producer, Cinematographer/Blueprint America

Dubuque, Iowa, reinventing itself. Part of the Blueprint America infrastructure series.

2010

Mississippi Town Uses Stimulus for Mass Transit

Producer, Cinematographer/Blueprint America

A rural Mississippi community bringing mass transit online with stimulus money.

NOVA

2017

The Nuclear Option

Producer, Cinematographer

2016

15 Years of Terror

Producer, Cinematographer

2015

Nuclear Meltdown Disaster

Producer, Cinematographer

2014

Inside Animal Minds: Dogs and Super Senses

Producer, Cinematographer

2014

Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest?

Producer, Cinematographer

2014

Why Planes Vanish

Producer, Cinematographer

2013

Manhunt: Boston Bombers

Producer, Cinematographer

The technology used to identify and catch the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and the manhunt that followed.

  • News & Documentary Emmy Award
2013

Megastorm Aftermath

Producer, Cinematographer

2013

Mind of a Rampage Killer

Producer, Cinematographer

Aired February 2013.

The New York Times

2015

Wake Up, Benghazi!

Producer, Cinematographer/Trials of Spring

A New York Times video documentary from Libya, part of the Trials of Spring series.

Bill Moyers

2013

Homeless in High Tech's Shadow

Producer, Cinematographer

Silicon Valley as a microcosm of America's new extremes of wealth and poverty — record profits alongside record homelessness.

2012

Hurricane Sandy and a People's Relief

Producer, Cinematographer

Two weeks after Sandy, public housing residents in Coney Island were still without power, and Occupy Sandy was filling the gap.

2012

United States of ALEC

Cinematographer

On the American Legislative Exchange Council and model legislation.

Pattern Films

2005

Garlic and Watermelons

Director, Producer, Cinematographer

In the shadow of the Athens Olympic Stadium, a Roma settlement where women wash clothes, men peel garlic, and children play in the dust.

  • Premiere · Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival

The Delegates

Director, Producer, Cinematographer

Trailer for a film following delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Teaching Channel

2012

Statistical Analysis to Rank Baseball Players

Producer, Cinematographer

2012

Divergent Questioning in 8th Grade Math

Producer, Cinematographer

2012

Group Dynamics in 3rd Grade Math

Producer, Cinematographer

Shot and produced for the Teaching Channel.

2012

Think-Pair-Share to Practice Simplifying Expressions

Producer, Cinematographer

2012

Time Management in 7th Grade Science

Producer, Cinematographer

2011

Aiming for Excellence: 3rd Grade Math

Producer, Cinematographer

2011

Aiming for Excellence: 8th Grade Math

Producer, Cinematographer

Thirteen / WNET

2012

Fragile Waterways

Producer, Cinematographer

Brooklyn, the Great Lakes, the Finger Lakes, and Long Island — communities working to clean up, restore, and protect their waterways.

WGBH / PBS World

2012

Your Voice Your Story

Producer, Cinematographer

An interstitial shorts series for WGBH and PBS World. Executive producer: Stanley Nelson.

Channel 4

2008

Swing State

Director, Cinematographer/The Unquiet American

Part of The Unquiet American, produced by Steve James for Cinelan. Broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK on November 5, 2008 — U.S. election night.

Not yet catalogued

Cameron has produced, directed, or shot for these outlets, but the individual titles aren't listed here yet. Rather than guess at credits, this page names the gap.

  • American Experience
  • BBC
  • Al Jazeera