
A W A R D S _

Telly Awards 2025 Gold: Promotional (Toyota) - Outside

Telly Awards 2025 Silver: Sports - Outside The Webby Awards 2025 Honoree: Limited Series - Sports

Telly Awards 2025 Silver: Sports (New Balance) - Outside

Digiday Content Marketing Awards 2025 Finalist: Best Use of Sponsored Content (Toyota) - Outside

Folio’s 2017 Eddie Award for Outdoor-Sports Single Article

Western Publishing Association Maggie Awards Best Feature Article finalist, May 2014 edition of Canoe & Kayak
V I D E O P R O D U C T I O N A R C H I V E S
V I D E O P R O D U C T I O N A R C H I V E S _

I recruited and cast the eight athlete-characters for this original 5-part series/competition; acted as a field producer liaison between talent and the event/production teams; and wrote/developed the content for the microsite digital experience that housed the series.

I co-wrote and -produced this hyperzany 6-part series alongside Will Taylor aka Salty Jefferson for the Water Sports Foundation, underwritten by taxpayer-supported safety grants from the U.S. Coast Guard.

I produced and directed this 3-part series on the best paddling in Maine. Part 1 features a wild yet accessible overnight Maine adventure, canoeing a classic Northern Forest Canoe Trail section across Flagstaff Lake and down the Dead River to Maine Huts & Trails' Grand Falls Hut.

I co-wrote and -produced this zany 6-part series for the Water Sports Foundation, underwritten by taxpayer-supported safety grants from the U.S. Coast Guard.

I produced, wrote, and directed this two-part series that explores the best overnight paddling sections and unique gateway communities of the Adirondack Canoe Route: the historic 90-mile section of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail from Old Forge to Saranac Lake.

A 2016 Veterans Day preview of an ongoing series of veteran-paddler profiles for Canoe & Kayak
F U N N Y _

Best ferret story I've ever shared

If you only watch one installment of The Hard Way, please make it Ep 6 "Paddle with a Partner." Come for the Nic Cage references, stay for the series recap

First hard news piece I broke for the Craig Daily Press, where me paid journalism career began as part-time general assignment reporter in spring 2006.

Hard-hitting coverage of real rock-paper-scissors competition.

By Joe Jackson Originally published in Canoe & Kayak magazine's July 2011 edition

Trial by error is a funny thing. By Dave Shively / Photos by Woody Welch Originally publish in Canoe & Kayak magazine's 2009 Beginner's Guide