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We are an award-winning, full-service video production and communications company with more than 40 years of combined experience as journalists and television producers. We've produced for:
- PBS
- CBS
- National Public Radio
- The Discovery Channel
- Fox Family Worldwide
- and numerous other broadcast outlets, businesses and nonprofits.
We've written and edited for more than 50 national and specialty magazines, newspapers and Web sites such as:
- Inc Magazine
- The Boston Globe
- Audubon
- National Parks
- Natural Health
For bios of our principals, click here.
 JASON C. GRANT, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY — Over the last ten years, Jason Grant has shot, edited, and produced for PBS, CBS, The Discovery Channel, top-market broadcast outlets and a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and businesses. He's taken his storytelling prowess and his camera up mountains, into forests, onto the scenes of floods, fires, crimes, presidential campaigns, and legislative battles, and into the stadiums and locker rooms of the New England Patriots and the Boston Red Sox. In 2006, a story he shot for CBS/Boston on a porpoise giving birth received an Emmy Award for Best Spot News.
Jason got his start shooting for New Hampshire Public Television's Crossroads TV magazine alongside New Hampshire's best-loved storyteller, Fritz Wetherbee. He later worked for The Phantom Gourmet, shooting and editing more than 80 restaurant reviews annually. When St. Anselm College's Institute of Politics needed an expert to teach its students, it turned to Jason, who provided students with hands-on instruction in television production; he subsequently engineered an upgrade of the institute's million-dollar broadcast studio. He's served as cameraman, news editor, and microwave and satellite truck operator for CBS News in Boston.
Jason is an outdoorsman who has climbed in the Alaska Range and the Himalayas. He's been a commercial crab fisherman and a forest fire fighter. Jason spent four years serving as a guardian ad litem for New Hampshire Court Appointed Special Advocates.
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 ELAINE APPLETON GRANT, PRESIDENT — Elaine Appleton Grant is a scriptwriter and producer who brings 20 years' worth of journalism and management experience to the video production world.
A specialist in entrepreneurship, she's been an editor at Inc. magazine, the "bible" of fast-growing businesses. As a result of her work at Inc. and her many years of focusing on the business world, Elaine is an expert on fast-growth companies and enjoys helping entrepreneurs grow their organizations.
Also avidly interested in health and the environment, she's written for The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Business Week, Audubon, New Age Journal, Natural Health, and more than 50 other trade and consumer magazines. She produced television segments for New Hampshire Public Television's popular Crossroads series and has done on-air and voice-over work as well.
In 1997, Ziff-Davis Publishing tapped Elaine to serve as founding editor of a trade magazine for adult educators. She built a team of dedicated, creative professionals who produced an award-winning magazine that rapidly became the leading trade publication in its field. Inc. Magazine then recruited Elaine to become editor of Inc. Technology and a senior editor at Inc. There, she was often called upon to speak or moderate panels at national and regional conferences. (Today she writes Inc.'s popular "Business for Sale" column.)
Later Elaine took her storytelling skills to National Public Radio's talk show, The Connection, where she produced a wide range of programs on topics ranging from the Iraq war to foster care, foreign policy, and family planning. In addition to managing Muddy Dog Media, Elaine writes and edits for several magazines and private clients.
Elaine spent three years as a guardian ad litem for New Hampshire Court Appointed Special Advocates and has done a variety of other volunteer work. She is a member of the New Hampshire Creative Club and the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits.
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 LOU BORTONE, CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER — Lou Bortone's 20-year career has taken him from the newsroom at WBZ-TV in Boston to the senior executive suites at Fox Entertainment in Los Angeles and, now, back to the east coast as Muddy Dog's Creative Director.
Since his return to the Boston area, Lou has supported the marketing and creative efforts of a wide range of nonprofit, corporate and media companies, including WZMY-TV (formerly WNDS), WZID-FM, New Hampshire Magazine, The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, RiverWoods retirement community, the Richie McFarland Children's Center and Internet retailer ChoiceArt.com.
Before returning to New England, Lou was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Advertising for Fox Family Worldwide, where he led a creative and events team of 25 staff and managed a $35 million dollar budget. Called "the best-run division at Fox," Lou's team produced more than 40 major events per year and directed strategic marketing and creative services for the Fox Family Channel, the Fox Kids Network and international television producer Saban Entertainment.
Prior to joining Fox, Lou was Vice President of Communications for Promax International, where he managed public relations, advertising and promotion for the worldwide media trade association. Lou was instrumental in reinvigorating the nonprofit organization's conference by helping to attract speakers such as Michael Eisner, Ted Turner, and Maya Angelou.
On the side, Lou is one helluva comedy writer. His sketch comedy show Granite Planet is shown on more than 40 community access cable stations. New Hampshire Magazine recently voted it the "Best Community Access TV Show" in New Hampshire.
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