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Clips
Consultant Projects
In June 2003, Pine completed a year-long project helping to build Republika Srpska's independent daily into a national newspaper for all of Bosnia.
In July 2002, Pine trained six winners from an all-Balkan contest for funding for investigative projects on corruption. The journalists focused their winning projects and sharpened their investigative skills in a one-week seminar led by Pine in Sofia. Pine built a website to provide follow-up advice as the projects' developed toward publication over the next three months.
In May 2002, Pine led a team of seven Balkan journalists on a two week investigative project in northeast Bosnia. Pine acted as editor and rewriter on all the stories.
In January 2002, Pine led a group of eight Albanian journalists in a two-week investigation of the sex-trafficking trade in Albania. The goal of the project, sponsored by the Reporting Diversity Network in London, was to train journalists in investigative techniques. The project produced a seven-story package, which was published in Albanian media.
News Stories
On deadline from Croatia in October 2001, Pine put the Tennessean ahead on a national story by backgrounding the Croatian murderer of a Greyhound bus driver and seven passengers in Tennessee.
Online
Essays
Projects
Red Tape Series (Alameda Newspaper Group)
Pine's first assignment from the Alameda Newspaper Group (Oakland Tribune, Hayward Daily Review, Fremont Argus, Alameda Times-Star, Tri-Valley Herald) was to develop a weekly advocacy feature that used journalistic investigation of government agencies to demand solutions to citizen complaints. Pine won the California Newspaper Association's first place public service award for the year-long series that forced the IRS and VA, among others, to pay back hapless citizens and make major bureaucratic reforms. Some examples from the Red Tape series:
The Russian Project (Easy Reader)
As editor of a Southern California 60,000 circulation weekly during the end of Gorbachev's reign in the Soviet Union, Pine tried a real life experiment in glasnost, Gorbachev's coming out party for democracy. He hired a talented young street political cartoonist in Moscow to do a weekly feature called "Cartoon Wars." Eighteen-year-old Roma Genn's cartoons were smuggled out of Russia and run next to U.S. syndicated cartoonist Matt Weurker's drawings on the same theme. Pine toured the Soviet Union with Genn and his mother and wrote a series of cover stories with art on the rapid changes in the country. The successful efforts of Pine and the weekly staff to help the young Jewish artist and his mother emigrate to the U.S. were the subject of a television special. Now, Genn lives in Los Angeles and is a caricaturist for the Los Angeles Times, National Review and other national publications. Some examples from the Russian series:
The story of the Genn's final months in Russia before emmigrating to the U.S.
The original cover story announcing Genn's debut in the Cartoon Wars feature.
The second of a three-part series on Pine's trip through the former Soviet Union with the Genns just as Gorbachev's empire was crumbling.
Genn is now a successful cariacturist with the LA Times and other outlets.
Manhattan Beach Country Club (Easy Reader)
For two years as a reporter at a Southern California weekly, Pine plodded through court documents and interviewed 47 subjects to get the story of a real estate empire headquartered at this wealthy seaside community's country club. The four part series earned the Easy Reader a seat at the finalists' table with national publications for the prestigious Gerald Loeb business journalism awards. An excerpt from the series' first part:
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