About the author

I am a multimedia journalist, filmmaker and online video strategist. Currently, I am on a one-year sabbatical from my position as the Director of Video for The Los Angeles Times, where I supervise a staff of five full-time video journalists and have the responsibility for the organization’s overall video strategy and content.

As a photojournalist for 15 years, I worked on assignment for a number of national and international publications while living in the United States and abroad.  In the mid-1990s, I combined audio with photography and produced stories for National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of America. From 1998 to December 2000, I served as VOA’s Bureau Chief in Islamabad and covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.  I opened and operated one of only five news bureaus under the strict Taliban regime in Kabul in 1999.

Since 2001, my work has focused on long-form documentary filmmaking for broadcast and theatrical release.  Most of my broadcast work has appeared on the award-winning PBS program FRONTLINE.

A complete filmography of my work can be found here.

In addition to storytelling, I help organizations with multimedia strategies in the areas of production, promotion and distribution.  I also teach visual storytelling, shooting technique and editing to organizations and broadcasters such as the BBC, Channel 4 (Sweden), ChannelNews Asia (Singapore), CNN, Oxygen (New York) and to newspaper journalists through the National Press Photographers Association workshops.

I am based in Los Angeles.

Please contact me at:  scott(at)scottanger(dot)com