Dalton Main
I am an award-winning multimedia journalist living in Chicago, Illinois.
I’ve been a journalist for a decade and worked on multimedia projects in Chicago, Louisville, Boston and New York. My love for journalism really started in 2009 when I made a documentary for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy to garner more funding for the Alternative Sentencing Program from the Kentucky Legislature.
Since then, I’ve earned a master’s degree. I’ve been published by CNN, NPR, Fox News, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Palm Beach Post, The Austin American-Statesman and local news TV stations across the country. I’ve built award-winning podcasts from the ground up, spoken at national podcast conferences and taught university courses.
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Underbelly: The Rebel Kind
The unforgettable story of a Chicago trucker who wound up as a spy for the FBI and MI5. Dave Rupert worked his way into the upper echelon of the Real IRA over the course of a decade in the 1990s.
New England’s Unsolved
In 2017, I adapted Boston 25 News’ long-running series New England’s Unsolved into a podcast.
Founded by Bob Ward in 1999, New England's Unsolved has been tracking investigations for more than 20 years.
The faces of the victims and their stories may disappear from newspaper headlines and television sets, but the memories remain in the families and communities left behind. We spend time retelling their stories to keep their cases from fading away.
Mass. Marijuana
In 2018, Boston 25’s parent company, Cox Media group, asked its company for podcast ideas. My idea for a podcast about Massachusetts’ cannabis industry was picked as one of five pilots.
Mass. Marijuana was praised by the community in Boston and received a 2019 Regional Edward R. Murrow award for its in-depth look at the new industry and creative use of sound.
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James ‘Whitey’ Bulger Special Program
The news of notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey” Bulger’s death was big news in New England, where state and federal agents were shocked to learn of his murder in prison. I produced a special program that aired on Boston 25 News that evening showing the station’s coverage of the mobster over the past two decades.
Make Way For Ducklings
In 2016, at the height of Facebook’s stranglehold on viral content, I produced this digital short with footage from a local elementary school. It reached over 85 million people on Facebook and won an award from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association.
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