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Announcement from Editorial Video Director Micah Gelman, Breaking News Senior Producer Nicki DeMarco and Supervising Video Producer Sarah Parnass:
We’re excited to announce that John Farrell will become The Post’s first weather and climate news video editor. In this role, John will work closely with the Weather, Climate and Audience teams to create explainer videos on key climate trends and aggregate engaging weather clips for the website and social platforms.
John joined The Post in 2019 from CSPAN and has spent the past 2 1/2 years leading morning video coverage as breaking news editor. His collegiality and cool head in a crisis have helped guide the video center team through a relentless news cycle for years. John is often responsible for posting some of our first videos during breaking news, such as the Texas power grid failurethe Surfside condo collapse and the botched US exit from Afghanistan.
John’s scientific background provided an essential journalistic service to our audience throughout the pandemic, from breaking down complex topics such as how virus variants form and spread, the debated validity of herd immunity and an effective step-by-step guide how vaccines are approved. John has also shown an aptitude for covering his new beat with videos on climate anxiety and how to overcome it could be key to saving our planet. In 2020, he produced a dramatic and informative piece on Hurricane Laura with meteorologist Matthew Cappucci, who sent images from inside the storm. And poetically, his first headline in The Post was on a video addressing the suggestion that hurricanes can be bombed.
John earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Vermont and made the jump to journalism in graduate school while still receiving a master’s degree in biology from the Harvard University Extension Program.
John will start his new role after a new morning breaking news video editor is hired. Please join us in congratulating him.
