Lauren Knapp

Video Producer · Team Leader · Educator

Leading teams to tell compelling visual stories, teaching the next generation.

I’m an award-winning documentary producer and editor with 15+ years of experience across documentary, investigative journalism and brand storytelling. For the past three years, I’ve led the video department at the University of Maryland.

Editing & Production

From fast-turnaround news packages to feature-length documentaries, I’ve spent my career finding the story in the edit. As Senior Video Editor at Scripps News Investigations, my work earned a National Emmy and a Murrow Award.

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Team Leadership

I lead UMD’s video department, overseeing creative direction, workflows, scheduling and budgets for university-wide campaigns. I’ve also led teams as Senior Producer at McClatchy Studios and on The Atlantic’s video team.

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Teaching

For nearly a decade I’ve taught hands-on documentary and video storytelling at Georgetown, Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and George Mason, including reporting trips with students to India and Iceland.

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National Emmy · Murrow Award · Mid-Atlantic Emmy · CASE Circle of Excellence · Student Academy Awards Finalist

Work featured on: The New York Times Op-Docs · The Atlantic · PBS NewsHour · NPR · Scripps News