Ara Ayer

• Create video experiences that combine powerful storytelling, exceptional production value and intelligent reporting.
• Champion a highly collaborative process with partners and clients to produce integrated digital campaigns, TV features, documentaries, commercials, marketing instruments, and web and mobile solutions.
• Clients include: CNN, HCL Technologies, Thrillist.com, Bloomberg TV & LP, EPIX TV Network, NBC, PBS, Edelman PR, AIG, Reframed Pictures, The Meredith Vieira Show, Jenny Craig, The Metropolitan Opera.

• With a dedicated team, launched a pioneering, award-winning nightly international news show on PBS.
• Managed, devised and implemented the network’s digital newsgathering strategy.
• Traveled to 14 countries producing, shooting and editing long form news stories and web features.
• Personally honored with three national Emmy nominations: Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast, Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.

• Produced a variety of human interest and hard news stories for the AP television network.

• Won acclaim documenting Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, terrorist attacks in Sinai, repression of Egypt’s democracy movement and street violence surrounding Egypt President Hosni Mubarak’s last presidential campaign.
• Spearheaded agency video products for the AARP and NY Fashion Week.

• Led NBC’s war coverage in Pakistan and Afghanistan after 9/11.
• Conducted intensive on-the-ground work: reporting, photographing and producing in conflict zones.
• Managed NBC’s Tel Aviv bureau and won a duPont-Columbia silver baton for frontline reporting of the second Palestinian Intifada.
• Created and depended upon strong interpersonal relationships with people on all sides of the conflicts.

• Honored for ground breaking investigative, hidden camera and long form TV newsmagazine stories and coverage of the 9/11 attack and aftermath in New York.