tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118093672024-03-05T04:46:03.058-05:00David Schwab AbelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11809367.post-1114808795523954512005-04-29T17:06:00.058-04:002024-01-13T09:32:13.358-05:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidezpzP3ql26krfga9MWHGzy0c3l_0TXqOcwE5J5oxWqKw_6S2VAL-X7B-dFRJAObibbz6NbebdPfpFziqtTmcc2Ujnd89kDTlbUFtdYsFEh52zQfZQhPpk7GGjY2e6ya3kOfKBE1w5YsN9-tRvIbyQWIUSDcpM3UPQ8vUe_rj8Vt_U6dVpvk/s1230/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-07%20at%2011.44.00%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="981" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidezpzP3ql26krfga9MWHGzy0c3l_0TXqOcwE5J5oxWqKw_6S2VAL-X7B-dFRJAObibbz6NbebdPfpFziqtTmcc2Ujnd89kDTlbUFtdYsFEh52zQfZQhPpk7GGjY2e6ya3kOfKBE1w5YsN9-tRvIbyQWIUSDcpM3UPQ8vUe_rj8Vt_U6dVpvk/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-07%20at%2011.44.00%20PM.jpeg" width="255" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="float: left; font-size: 70px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">A</span>n award-winning reporter, documentary <a href="https://www.sej.org/publications/ej-insight/reporter-wearing-two-hats-journeys-filmmaking?fbclid=IwAR1BbzT290R-EulOAKSJsXfsZ4sZt76K-oz5hQ15ckLAVF9ZNexbuKzivD4">filmmaker</a>, and professor of journalism, David Abel has covered </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">war in the Balkans, unrest in Latin America</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, national security issues in Washington D.C., terrorism in New York and Boston, and climate change and poverty throughout New </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">England</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">A <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/david-abel/?p1=Article_Byline">longtime reporter</a> at The Boston Globe, Abel is also a <a href="https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/david-abel/">professor of the practice</a> in the journalism department at Boston University. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Abel and his colleagues at the Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. His films have been broadcast on the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC World News, and other major platforms, winning numerous awards. His most recent film, “<a href="http://www.entangled-film.com">Entangled</a>,” won a Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films, and was nominated for a national Emmy. Abel’s work has also won an Edward R. Murrow award, the Ernie Pyle award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and Sigma Delta Chi awards for feature reporting and climate reporting.<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="float: left; font-size: 70px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">O</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">n April 15, 2013, Abel </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">was standing <a href="http://nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=102870">on the finish line</a> of the Boston Marathon when two </span><span style="background-color: white;">bombs detonated <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/22/sports/boston-moment.html?_r=0">a few steps away</a>. On leave from the Globe, he was working on a film that day and recorded the horrible aftermath of the attack. He filed the first story while filming the rescue efforts, which was part of a package of Globe stories that</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> won the 2014 </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Breaking-News-Reporting">Pulitzer Prize</a><span style="background-color: white;"> for Breaking News.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/16/bombwitness/G1za8FQMbn0oZ6YPrBQqZM/video.html">His footage</a> from the finish line was part of a package that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/04/24/five-globe-videos-nominated-for-new-england-emmy-awards/HOcSpzJqfAA1DgpOZMUZlN/story.html">nominated for </a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/04/24/five-globe-videos-nominated-for-new-england-emmy-awards/HOcSpzJqfAA1DgpOZMUZlN/story.html">an Emmy</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">won a national <a href="http://rtdna.org/content/2014_national_edward_r_murrow_award_winners#.U5nXxxZmg2w">Edward R. Murrow Award</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. He also </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">wrote an <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/16/bombwitness/G1za8FQMbn0oZ6YPrBQqZM/story.html">eyewitness </a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/16/bombwitness/G1za8FQMbn0oZ6YPrBQqZM/story.html">account</a> that appeared on the front page the next day. Abel spent the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://davidabelmarathon.blogspot.com/">following year writing about </a>the impact of the attack, including a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> narrative he reported for <a href="http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2014/04/17/notable-narrative-david-abel-and-the-richard-family-survivors-of-the-boston-marathon-bombing/">six months</a> about the toll on one family, the Richards</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. That <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/12/loss-and-love/a19pcWz6WF5nNozPPItwYI/story.html">story</a> won the </span><a href="https://scripps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SHA-winners-2014.pdf" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling </a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from the Scripps Howard Foundation as well as the </span><a href="https://www.spj.org/sdxa14.asp" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. It was also</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> named a <a href="http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2014/04/17/notable-narrative-david-abel-and-the-richard-family-survivors-of-the-boston-marathon-bombing/">notable narrative</a> by the Nieman Storyboard, a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://blog.longreads.com/2014/12/01/longreads-best-of-2014-here-are-all-of-our-no-1-story-picks-from-this-year/?utm_content=bufferc564f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">Best of 2014</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://longform.org/writers/david-abel">top read</a> by </span><a href="http://longform.org/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Longform.org</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, and featured on the list of </span><a href="http://www.si.com/more-sports/2014/12/28/media-circus-most-fascinating-personality-2015-best-journalism-2014?page=3&devicetype=default" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Best Journalism in 2014 by Sports Illustrated</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In 2012, Abel was <a href="http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/05/04/globe-reporter-david-abel-wins-nieman-fellowship/yDA40IoJOuHJbYm0cZSjAO/story.html">selected</a> to </span><span style="background-color: white;">be a <a href="http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/newsitem.aspx?id=100197">Nieman fellow</a> at Harvard University. Among his projects</span><span style="background-color: white;"> was a documentary film</span><span style="background-color: white;"> about </span><span style="background-color: white;">the <a href="http://davidabelmarathon.blogspot.com/2013/12/outrunning-expectations-in-boston.html">first little person</a> to run the Boston Marathon and how her quest ended in a way she never expected.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">The film</span><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/65437032">"25.7: In Twice the </a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/65437032">Steps,"</a> </span><span style="background-color: white;">was</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">broadcast to a national audience on the first anniversary of the attack by </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.pivot.tv/">Pivot</a>, a cable </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">channel that was owned by <a href="http://www.participantmedia.com/tv/">Participant Media</a>. It was also</span><span style="background-color: white;"> <a href="http://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=80035~05cb9704-bfe5-4d73-aeb6-44c19bbac1a2&epguid=d516d018-d5c6-406e-aa8d-3f2b68b26e23&">screened at the Boston </a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=80035~05cb9704-bfe5-4d73-aeb6-44c19bbac1a2&epguid=d516d018-d5c6-406e-aa8d-3f2b68b26e23&">Independent Film Festival</a>. The </span><span style="background-color: white;">History Channel produced <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/boston-marathon-bombings/videos/i-was-there-boston-marathon-bombings-juli-and-david?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false">a short video</a> about the making </span><span style="background-color: white;">of the </span><span style="background-color: white;">film. Abel <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/boston-marathon/juli-windsor-leads-the-way">ran the 2014 Boston Marathon</a> with the subject of the film, Juli Windsor, and <a href="http://artery.wbur.org/2014/12/23/boston-marathon-abel-windsor-documentary">produced a feature</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://artery.wbur.org/2014/12/23/boston-marathon-abel-windsor-documentary"> documentary</a> about her experience over the year and how the city rallied against fear. The film, "<a href="http://undauntedinboston.blogspot.com/">Undaunted: Chasing History at the Boston Marathon</a>," was broadcast across the world in April 2015 on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3csz98v">BBC World News</a> and the <a href="http://press.discovery.com/us/discovery-life/programs/little-person-boston-strong/">Discovery Life </a>channel. See the trailer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwg_33H7sjo">here</a>.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VgTrzRBwA87T6ePAnQN0hsJapvkym2gBzo2MQ1Wa06ms2bHMmdHXZ7nP10QUrgORartkIRz1axjYBtZOmlIZSHkwe60iS2H2AVSZaJbaVDIVuqrwf5K4VxFT1IS9mGqvxjRGwLy296lwGSF0aGxew4QzBkUUcaku3MtHpYSBiQqDjfyHsepbYw/s2190/Screenshot%202023-08-15%20at%201.55.14%20PM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="2190" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VgTrzRBwA87T6ePAnQN0hsJapvkym2gBzo2MQ1Wa06ms2bHMmdHXZ7nP10QUrgORartkIRz1axjYBtZOmlIZSHkwe60iS2H2AVSZaJbaVDIVuqrwf5K4VxFT1IS9mGqvxjRGwLy296lwGSF0aGxew4QzBkUUcaku3MtHpYSBiQqDjfyHsepbYw/w942-h226/Screenshot%202023-08-15%20at%201.55.14%20PM.png" width="942" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Afterward, Abel co-produced and directed a film about the historic collapse of the iconic cod fishery in New England. That film, </span></span><a href="http://www.sacredcodfilm.com/">"Sacred Cod</a>,"<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">premiered at the </span><a href="https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/" style="background-color: white;">Camden International Film Festival</a><span style="background-color: white;"> in Maine and </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">was broadcast to a global audience </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">by the Discovery Channel </span><span style="background-color: white;">in the spring of 2017. It went on to be screened at film festivals and in educational venues around the world by <a href="http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/scod.html">Bullfrog Films</a>.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> See more about the film and a trailer </span><a href="http://www.sacredcodfilm.com/">here</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In 2016, Abel spent a semester as the </span></span><a href="http://com.miami.edu/profile/david-abel" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">visiting Knight Chair in journalism</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> at the University of Miami's </span><a href="http://com.miami.edu/about/about-the-school" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Center for Communication, Culture and Change</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, where he directed an award-</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">winning film called "</span><a href="http://www.gladesmenfilm.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">" The feature-length film is about the government's $16 billion effort to restore the Everglades, one of the planet's most damaged ecosystems. It's told through a group of men and women called Gladesmen, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who worried they were losing their way of life. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The film was screened at film festivals including the 2018 <a href="https://2018.miamifilmfestival.com/films/gladesmen-the-last-of-the-sawgrass-cowboys/">Miami Film Festival</a>, <a href="http://dceff.org/">Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital</a>, and the <a href="https://www.americanfilmfestival.pl/opis.do?id=9569">American Film Festival</a> in Warsaw, Poland. A jury at the Miami Film Festival selected the film as the <a href="https://miamifilmfestival.com/knight-made-in-mia/">winner of the Knight Foundation's Made in Miami Award</a>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The film was released on <a href="https://www.gladesmenfilm.com/watch">many digital platforms</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">by <a href="http://gravitasventures.com/documentary/">Gravitas Ventures</a>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">See more about the film and a trailer </span><a href="https://gladesmenfilm.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Revolutionary War. That film, called </span><a href="http://www.lobsterwar.com/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Lobster War: The Fight Over the World's Richest Fishing Grounds,</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">" premiered in the fall of 2018 at the </span><a href="https://www.maritimefilmfestival.com/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">International Maritime Film Festival</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, where a jury selected it as </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the runner-up for the grand prize for Best Feature Film. Lobster War was featured at scores of independent theaters and film festivals, including the 2018 </span><a href="http://mysticfilmfestival.com/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mystic Film Festival</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, where it won an award for B</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">est New England Film.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> The film was released on <a href="http://www.lobsterwar.com/watch">many digital platforms</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">by <a href="http://gravitasventures.com/documentary/">Gravitas Ventures</a>. See more about the film and a trailer </span><a href="http://www.lobsterwar.com/" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In 2020, Abel produced and directed a film about how climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world’s most endangered species, North America’s most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The film</span><span style="background-color: white;">, "</span><a href="https://entangled-film.com/" style="background-color: white;">Entangled</a><span style="background-color: white;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;">" </span>chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction, the impacts of those efforts on the lobster industry, and how NOAA has struggled to balance the vying interests. The film, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">which was backed by the </span><a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/entangled-race-save-right-whales-extinction" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Pulitzer Center</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and <a href="https://www.lef-foundation.org/MovingImageFund/MovingImageFundGrantsDirectory/tabid/230/g/1369/Default.aspx">LEF Foundation</a>, premiered at the <a href="https://www.woodsholefilmfestival.org/festival-2020/2020-docfeatures/">Woods Hole Film Festival</a> in 2020 and was featured at more than a dozen other festivals. It was nominated for a <a href="https://theemmys.tv/news-43rd-nominations/">national Emmy award</a> and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">won a </span><a href="https://www.jacksonwild.org/2020-media-awards.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jackson Wild</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> award, known as the Oscars of nature films. It won</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Best Feature Film at the </span><a href="http://wildlifefilms.org/2021/05/01/2021-festival-awards/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">International Wildlife Film Festival</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and at the</span> <a href="https://www.waterdocs.ca" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Water Docs Film Festival</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. It also won</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Best Conservation Film at the </span><a href="https://mysticfilmfestival.com/portfolio-item/entangled/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mystic Film Festival</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> and at the </span><a href="https://www.deeperblue.com/2021-international-ocean-film-festival-kicks-off-next-week-winners-announced/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">International Ocean Film Festival</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. The film also received </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">he John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award at the </span><a href="https://www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/2021-award-winners/" style="background-color: white;">Wild & Scenic Film Festival</a> and the Director's Vision Award at the <a href="https://www.bluewaterfilmfestival.org/festival-schedule">Blue Water Film Festival</a>, among other awards. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Entangled was broadcast to a national audience on </span><a href="https://worldchannel.org/episode/local-usa-entangled/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">PBS's World Channel</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> on Earth Day in 2021. It's being distributed by </span><a href="https://curiositystream.com/video/4234" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">CuriosityStream</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GravitasVentures/videos/1134703574065800/">Gravitas Ventures</a>, </span><a href="http://bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ent.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Bullfrog Films</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, and </span><a href="https://www.magnifymedia.co.uk/show/18414/entangled" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Magnify Media</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">See more about the making of t</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">he film </span><a href="https://www.oceanographicmagazine.com/features/entangled-right-whales/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In 2023, Abel produced and directed two new films: "<a href="http://www.inthewhalefilm.com">In the Whale</a>" and "<a href="https://www.inundationdistrict.com/">Inundation District</a>."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In the Whale is about arguably the greatest fish story ever told, though this one is true. It’s the account of a man who survived to tell the tale of being swallowed by a whale, and what happened after he was spit out. "In the Whale" premiered at the New Hampshire Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award. It also won Best New England Film at the Mystic Film Festival. The film is now being screened at theaters and festivals around the country. For screenings, see more <a href="https://www.inthewhalefilm.com/screenings">here</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Inundation District" is about the implications of one city’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district — on landfill, at sea level. Inundation District premiered at the GlobeDocs Film Festival and is now being screened at theaters and other festivals around the country. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For screenings, see more</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.inundationdistrict.com/screenings" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Abel also hosted a podcast about climate change called <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-rising/id1482781075">Climate Rising</a>. About a dozen</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> episodes of the podcast, produced by Harvard Business School, began airing in the fall of 2019 on </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-rising/id1482781075" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">iTunes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> and other major podcast platforms. Listen to the trailer and other episodes </span><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/environment/podcast/Pages/default.aspx" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="float: left; font-size: 70px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">W</span>hen Abel first moved to Boston in 1999 to work for the Globe, he covered academia in the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">region, writing stories about topics such as </span><a href="http://davidabel4.blogspot.com/2005/05/being-cornel-west.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">Cornel West's messy departure</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> from Harvard and </span><a href="http://davidabel4.blogspot.com/2005/05/so-it-goes-for-vonnegut.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">Kurt Vonnegut's taxing year at Smith College</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">. He covered the deadlocked presidential election in 2000 from Florida and the Sept. 11 attacks from New York. Later, he launched a new beat at the Globe covering </span><a href="http://davidabel3.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">poverty issues</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">, writing about the homeless who refuse to stay in shelters on the coldest nights, the mentally ill evicted from their apartments without due process, and immigrants swindled by sham law firms. He spent a year as co-editor of the Globe's old </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/regional_editions/city_weekly/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">City Weekly</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> section, which covered the characters and issues that color Boston. Over the years, he has also moonlighted as a </span><a href="http://davidabel7.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;">travel writer</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> with narratives from the glaciers of Iceland to the deserts of Namibia.</span><br />
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reactor, boarded ice-covered </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">fishing boats before dawn in the black waters off
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across the mountains of Tierra del Fuego. Over the years, he has written stories that cast light on serious problems in Massachusetts, such as the
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major cuts to environmental agencies. He has written about the <a href="http://davidabelenvironment.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-biggest-threat-to-trumps-mar-lago.html">threat of rising sea levels to Palm Beach</a>, and one famous property there. Other stories have </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">detailed the health risks of fine p</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">articulate matter in the atmosphere, the trials </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">of complying with new requirements to reduce lead poisoning, and the impact of the rapid warming of the Gulf of Maine</span><span style="background-color: white;">. He has also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xJvVa-gFuQ">moderated debates</a> about climate change between mayoral candidates in Boston as well as <a href="https://whatyouneedtoknowchemicals.splashthat.com/">panel discussions</a> about toxic chemicals known as PFAS. In 2022, a project he worked on with colleagues called "<a href="https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2021/12/the-lobster-trap/">Lobster Trap</a>" won a <a href="https://www.spj.org/sdxa21.asp">Sigma Delta Chi award</a> for environment/climate reporting, ranked <a href="https://featuresjournalism.org/?fbclid=IwAR3aKRXy4c8qS4MdzvNaglJwDSF5CbgZ3e4bA9soOFKSzINatd2W1pUzaow">first</a> in features reporting by the Society for Features Journalism, and was a finalist for a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2022-gerald-loeb-award-finalists-lifetime-honoree-and-date-of-awards-event-in-new-york-city-announced-by-ucla-anderson-301608770.html?tc=portal_CAP">Gerald Loeb Award</a> and MIT's <a href="https://ksj.mit.edu/news/2022/03/29/2022-mcelheny-award-announcement/">Victor K. McElheny award</a> for science journalism.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Abel has taught journalism for years, including classes on beat reporting at Boston University, Emerson College, and Northeastern University. He taught narrative writing at Harvard University Extension School, writing for lawyers at Vermont Law School, and seminars on travel writing at the </span><a href="http://bcae.org/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=11699&int_category_id=1&int_sub_category_id=52" style="background-color: white;">Boston Center for Adult Education</a><span style="background-color: white;">. In 2022, he was appointed as a full-time professor of the practice in science journalism at Boston University.<span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Before moving to New England, Abel spent a year in Washington, D.C., where he wrote for the Globe and other papers, including a weekly journal covering the military. During that time, he traveled to the former Yugoslavia to cover the war in Kosovo and to Venezuela to document the </span><a href="http://davidabel12.blogspot.com/2005/05/witness-to-revolution-in-venezuela.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">rise of Hugo Chavez</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Previously, Abel lived in Cuba, where he worked as a stringer for more than a dozen papers, including the Globe, Miami Herald, Newsday, and San Francisco Chronicle. Abel was <a href="http://davidabel11.blogspot.com/2005/06/tale-of-my-deportation.html">deported on Christmas Eve </a>in 1998, after rankling authorities with unflattering stories.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Before moving to Cuba, Abel spent a year covering the police beat, a small town on the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">border of the Everglades, and occasionally reviewing classical music for The Palm Beach Post. He moved to Florida after a brief stint running a pepper farm in the rural highlands of the Dominican Republic, but that's </span><a href="http://davidabel7.blogspot.com/2005/03/my-macondo-in-dr.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a long story</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Abel's career started in Mexico City, where he wrote for an expatriate newspaper covering the nation's social movements and economic woes. Before that, he spent a year in San Francisco, writing poetry, fiction, and articles for the Haight Ashbury Free Press.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Born and raised in New York, where for decades he spent every Valentine's Day helping <a href="http://davidabelrandom.blogspot.com/2013/07/underground-tradition.html">his family sell flowers</a> at their kiosks in Penn Station, Abel studied political science and philosophy at the University of Michigan and has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.</span></span><br />
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