Hi.
I'm Mary Helen Montgomery.
I'm a multimedia journalist based in the South.
I'm a multimedia journalist based in the South.
I work in audio, film, and interactive media.
A podcast episode about a horse tradition that has torn families apart and sent people into hiding. For Criminal.
A podcast episode about segregation in Chattanooga, TN, and an unlikely friendship, for Neighbors from Nashville Public Radio.
A podcast episode about the first interracial couple to legally marry in Chattanooga, Tenn. for Neighbors from Nashville Public Radio.
A podcast episode about the digital divide in Chattanooga, for Slate Magazine's podcast Placemakers.
A podcast episode about the hunt for the perfect cider apple, for The Southern Foodways Alliance's podcast Gravy.
A podcast episode about fried food and faimly in a North Carolina mill town, for The Southern Foodways Alliance's podcast Gravy.
A video that showcases the arts program at Baylor School.
A video that looks at effects of poverty in Chattanooga, for The Poverty Puzzle. The series was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
A video that follows one woman looking back, and three friends looking forward, for The Poverty Puzzle.The series was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
A video that follows high school students on a college preparatory retreat, for The Poverty Puzzle. The series was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
An interactive map that shows where white and black people lived in 1950 and today.
A video that mixes voicemail messages with the city's reaction to a shooting attack. It won a 2015 EPPY Award.
A crowd-sourced video project that documents one day in the life of the people of Chattanooga, Tenn.
A multimedia project about the cycle of violence in Chattanooga. The team I worked with was named as a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist in local reporting.
An audio and animation project that presents the voices of four women, published before the vote on Tenn. Amendment 1.
A web application that tracks all homicides in Chattanooga. It shows biographies of the victims and updates on their cases.
A video that shows competitors in the Ironman race and the supporters who came out to cheer them on.
A project website with interactive graphics that I developed for a story about a family's struggle to keep a child from state custody.
A radio documentary that looks back on a deadly tornado. It won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
I'm the founder and leader of CodeXX, a women's coding group in Chattanooga, Tenn.
A multimedia story about Chattanooga's first and only free-standing abortion clinic.
A written story that looks at how people in Tennessee adopt pets from the wild, only to have them confiscated.
An online guide for Tennessee state primaries and Hamilton County general elections.
A radio documentary about the melungeons, a mixed race group of people in Appalachia.
A searchable database of the every school in Hamilton County's TCAP scores.
A radio story about Margaret Rogers, a 91-year-old tap dance teacher in Falmouth, Mass.
An interactive map that shows people per zipcode who subscribe to gigabit per second internet in Chattanooga.
I am an independent audio and multimedia producer based in Chattanooga, Tenn., and an associate instructor at the Transom Story Workshop. I've won numerous national and regional awards, including a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for a radio news documentary, an EPPY Award for best use of social media, and several first place awards from the Tennessee Associated Press for best multimedia, best website, and best video. I was part of a four-person team named as a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for a project about the cycle of violence in Chattanooga. I was also on the team named as a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for a project about poverty in Chattanooga.