A little about me...
I'm Mike Chapman and I've spent my professional career telling stories with pictures. I started as a videotape editor in Cleveland Ohio, then spent nearly six years with NBC News in their Boston Bureau, where I had the honor and pleasure of working with network correspondents Fred Briggs and Lisa Myers. I spent another two years at the Christian Science Monitor's late, lamented Monitor Channel, where one of the shows I edited won an Emmy.
Since then I've worked in venues of all kinds including a couple of years at Avid Technology, several more freelancing, and a few years at a little shop in Concord where I wore many hats, including senior editor, associate producer, and de-facto engineer. We had a wonderful run before the recession of 2009, and I was fortunate enough to have six of my editing efforts win Telly awards.
More recently I was an editor for Emily Rooney’s “Beat the Press” show on WGBH, a perfect confluence of the skills I have gathered in editing, “edit room producing”, and journalism. Having Emily call me “A great editor” publicly was an extremely proud moment. And I’m honored to say that one of the shows I contributed to won an Emmy in 2020.
These days I’m a freelance FCP-X instructor, producer, editor, workflow consultant specializing in shared storage systems, and an FAA licensed drone pilot!
Contact me if I can be of service to you!