Danielle Elliot creates character-driven podcasts, documentary films, and brand campaigns, most recently as a story editor on an investigative series for iHeart Radio and co-producer on a forthcoming film for MSNBC.
She started in the documentary unit at NBA Original Programming, where she edited episodes of an Emmy-nominated series for ESPN and NBA Playoffs features for ABC Sports. She also freelanced as a local reporter for a startup called Patch.com, eventually helping it grow from three local sites in NJ to more than 300 across the country. Leading into the 2012 Olympics, she developed, directed, shot and edited an eight-part video series called “Olympics Moms” for The Huffington Post, which The Washington Post deemed “fantastic.”
After earning an M.A. from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, she became science editor at CBSNews.com and began writing long-form features for The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic, Nautilus, Grantland, Popular Mechanics, SB Nation Longform, and Vice Sports. She later covered the World Cup, the NFL, and more than a dozen Grand Slam tennis championships.
Working on United Skates for HBO pulled her back to the documentary world, and while story producing a series for FX a few years later, she pitched the director on turning one of the storylines into a podcast. She’s been developing and story editing podcasts ever since, most recently with Serial Productions, Audible, iHeart, and the Freakonomics Radio Network. She also works with documentary filmmakers to develop and structure films and series, and with Fortune 100 brands to direct and produce docu-style campaigns.
If you have a story you’re interested in sharing or one you’d like help telling, she can be reached at tipsfordanielle @ gmail.com.
