THE RECOUNT

From 2019–2022, Griffin Hammond worked as a Senior Video Creative and on-the-ground documentary filmmaker at The Recount—a small NYC-based news organization—producing campaign trail films, livestreams, and three series: Reframe, Rewind, and Ride-Along.

 

2020 campaign Trail films

(Nov 6, 2019)
“Dems Go Big in Iowa”

(Feb 11, 2020)
“Buttigieg Battles Bernie in New Hampshire”

(Feb 12, 2020)
“Bernie Wins New Hampshire”

 

REFRAME

Griffin Hammond debunks political misinformation.

(July 21, 2021) Drug overdoses killed more people in 2020 than gun violence and motor vehicles combined.

(July 12, 2021) One in four American adults have nothing saved for retirement.

(June 11, 2021) In 2020, the biggest U.S. companies paid their median CEO $13.4 million, and their median worker $72,556. That's a ratio of 185-to-1.

(May 24, 2021) Why is Bitcoin’s massive electricity consumption on the rise?

(Jan 15, 2021) How internet detectives have helped the FBI identify insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol.

(Sep 18, 2020) President Trump says “everybody” owns stocks. It’s not only wrong — it’s wildly out of touch with household finances in the U.S.

(Sep 14, 2020) In the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. faced nearly identical criticism as the Black Lives Matter movement faces today.

(May 11, 2020) Did President Trump create “the greatest economy in the history of the world”? Definitely not.

 
 

REWIND

A political video archive series by Griffin Hammond.

(Sep 27, 2020) A single head-to-head debate, just one week before Election Day 1980.

(Aug 19, 2020) With the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Black voter registration in the South climbed dramatically.

(Jun 12, 2020) During the 1918 flu pandemic, “mask slackers” were arrested, anti-mask protesters stormed city council, and a bomb was found outside a doctor’s office.

(Aug 3, 2020) Historically, big in-person political party conventions reliably delivered a polling “bounce.” That’s no longer the case.

(Jan 22, 2020) The scream that may have killed Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign.

(Dec 12, 2019) The Florida recount, and the Supreme Court ruling that decided a presidential election.

 

RIDE-ALONG

Griffin Hammond invites members of The Recount audience into the reporting process, to answer their most pressing questions.

(June 4, 2021) Why Are Americans Still Getting Arrested For Cannabis?

(May 7, 2021) Will Congress Decolonize Puerto Rico?

(Apr 7, 2021) Why Not Charge All Capitol Attackers With Murder?