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Melissa Cornick in her career as a network news television producer, has received numerous awards for her groundbreaking original investigative reports, including the prestigious 2006 Edward R. Murrow and the Mongerson Prize for Ethics in Investigative Reporting awards, among others for her work at at 60 Minutes, Dateline, 20/20 and for the legendary Walter Cronkite's former documentary unit. 

Cornick is trained much like an independent producer; from generating fresh concepts ahead of the media, to gumshoe reporting, to crafting and editing.  She specializes in challenging topics told by regular people for the nation to consider and that generate dynamic long term online discussions.   Cornick's objective is to give a voice to the voiceless while highlighting the tenets of ethics of journalism. 

Her current objective is to explore how investigative journalism on grassroots America can be popularized online through Fellowship projects which include the National Association of Television Executives Fellowship and the George Washington Williams Fellowship/New Voices in Independent Journalism. She has completed the NBPC New Media Institute Fellowship. 

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Monday, November 10, 2008
Grassroots Video Holds Ohio Election Officials Accountable
Why are Ohio election officials still in office, even though they wrote excuse letters about illegally destroying 2004 ballots, and while constituents complain that their quality of life is on the brink of collapse since the "stolen" 2004 election.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Ohio Citizens continue to find Democracy Deadlocked
In Ohio, citizen and professional journalism are utilized in a Fellowship project to expose how Ohio's disenfranchised voters are suffering a diminished quality of life since 2004. What concerns voters about how the landmark King Lincoln vote fraud case is being handled. Why hasn't the media examined the personal economy concerns of grassroots voters in connection with the 2004 election?