Jayne Orenstein

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Philadelphia is the latest installment of Tom Sietsema’s search for America’s best food cities. I focused the video on the true Philly hoagie of choice: the roast pork sandwich.  (Photo of John’s Roast Pork by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

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Food cities: Chicago and Portland

I’ve been working with our food critic to profile the dining scenes across the country as part of The Washington Post’s ongoing tour of America’s best food cities. 

Chicago was first, and I focused on the many types of tacos, from the tiny, Mexican tacqueria in Little Village to Rick Bayless’s high-end Frontera Grill:

(Here’s the full project: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/06/09/the-search-for-americas-best-food-cities-chicago/) 

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"The biggest thing I love about basketball is something that I still carry with me, since being a child, and it’s just the ability to dream." When the San Antonio Spurs hired Becky Hammon earlier this season, the former WNBA star became the first woman to hold a full-time paid coaching position in any of the big four professional sports. (Lillian Cunningham, Jayne Orenstein, Kyle Barss and Julio Negron / The Washington Post)

For our interview with Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon, we played with the format of our "On Leadership" series, which typically is a 90-second interview with an influential leader sharing a story about learning a management lesson. We incorporated sound and video beyond the interview and were able to build out Becky's path to from a girl playing basketball in North Dakota to coaching in the NBA.

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“My parents hate me slash don’t trust me, so they sent me to boarding school 15 minutes from my house,” LizaBanks Campagna deadpans on stage at Science Club’s open mic night.

Her parents have to trust her, though. She is an unsupervised teenager at a bar in Dupont Circle doing a stand-up comedy set. If she had a curfew, she would be breaking it.

I did a short profile on teenage comedian LizaBanks Campagna. As a self-proclaimed comedy nerd, I was really impressed that a teenage girl was trying to break into the stand-up comedy scene in D.C. 

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For the past two years, The Washington Post's Weekend section has curated a list of the best 40 dishes in D.C. I have been a big fan of the list when it comes out every year, since I love trying new dishes and exploring the food scene in Washington. Along with reporter Lavanya Ramanathan and some help from Randy Smith, we selected five of the 40 eats for short 40 second profiles. We talked to the chefs about the dish, saw how they were prepared and tried to capture the personalities of each restaurant in the videos. 

Above is one of the five dishes, Rose's Luxury's pork and litchi salad, but you can watch the videos for Chocolate Crust's doissant, Woodlands Vegan Bistro's macaroni & cheese, Daikaya's vegetable ramen and Water & Wall's duck confit here.

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First and 17, The Post’s video documentary series following Da’Shawn Hand, is featured in the latest edition of Sports Illustrated Magazine as part of their coverage of the year in sports media.

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WE MADE IT!

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Looking back on the whole series of "First and 17," this was one of my favorite episodes to edit. I can't say enough about how incredible Brad Horn's filming is on this, but you can just watch Episode 6: Tragedy and Triumph and see for yourself.

Da'Shawn Hand and the Woodbridge Vikings cope with tragedy off the field by coming together for a win on it.

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The Washington Post has been granted unfettered access to Woodbridge, Va. defensive end Da’Shawn Hand, the top high school football recruit in the country according to Rivals.com. The series will follow the 6-5, 260-pound standout both on and off the field, giving an inside look at the challenges facing a top recruit juggling school, football and his senior year. The new series is titled “First and 17.”

For more information, check out Recruiting Insider: http://wapo.st/19ZG33l

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Two hours into the celebration, after the children had finished scurrying about the garden, the adults had gossiped under the portico and everyone had indulged in a buffet of hummus and kebabs, Washington Post photographer Bill O’Leary clambered onto the roof of the villa serving as The Post’s bureau in Baghdad.

“Let’s take a group photo,” he beckoned.

And so they gathered. The interpreters, drivers and guards. Their wives. Their sons and daughters. Sixty-eight in all, standing between two palm trees under a gray autumn sky.

It was 2003. U.S. troops had entered Baghdad that April, and although Saddam Hussein was no longer in power, the Americans had not yet delivered upon grand promises to rebuild the nation. Most in O’Leary’s frame had no electricity at home. Looters roamed their streets. Many had not been to a party in years — they hadn’t had the means to entertain while Iraq’s economy was smothered by a trade embargo.

But as the shutter clicked, they smiled. Some thought back to their carefree childhoods, before years of war and suffocating sanctions. Others allowed their minds to wander ahead. The day’s gaiety seemed a harbinger of more joyous times.

After the photo session, the youngsters resumed playing table tennis and bouncing balloons into the air. “They are so lucky,” one of the drivers declared. “They will get to grow up in an Iraq free of war.”

Rajiv Chandrasekaran traveled across the U.S. and reconnected with eight of the Iraqi staffers (listed in the photo above) who worked for The Washington Post’s bureau in Baghdad. They risked their family’s safety and their own lives helping an American news organization during the war in Iraq. Read the full story here.

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I edited the two videos that appeared in Rajiv's story on the Post's Baghdad bureau. 

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This video is also from my internship at Thirteen.org, which was two years ago, but I was thinking about baseball, so I decided to post it now. I did most of the shooting--the interview and some of the b-roll, but I had to leave the shoot early so I didn't get to stay for any of the game. (I had to make the trek from Coney Island to New Jersey.) The editing was done by my colleague Daniel Ross, who I think did a really great job of juxtaposing the game with the interview. Sometimes I Google Hamilton Bennett to see if he got anywhere, but I think he's still on Coney Island.

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As an intern for Thirteen.org, I shot and edited this profile of Larry Hagberg, a blacksmith for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The Parks Department employs blacksmiths to create basketball hoops and other elements for the parks around the city.