Video Stories
Digital video, TV packages & documentary-style work
Taylor shot, wrote and edited each of the video stories below. She shoots on DSLR cameras and knows how to use several different editing programs, including Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere. She's a 2015 graduate of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) News Video Workshop.
TV PACKAGE | KING 5 INVESTIGATION | 2.22.22
Forks fell short in sexual harassment investigation
This is the first story in the five-part investigation, “Predator on Guard,” which centered on a correction's officer's sexual abuse of inmates at a small city jail in Forks, Washington.
The story highlights the city's failures in case of Kimberly Bender. Less than a year after our first story aired, the city of Forks agreed to pay $1 million to Bender’s family to settle a federal lawsuit. The plaintiff attorney in the case gave credit to KING’s investigation.
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TV PACKAGE | KING 5 INVESTIGATION | 4.12.22
Clallam Co. corrections officer kept job for decades despite violations
This is the second story in the five-part investigation, “Predator on Guard,” which centered on a correction's officer's sexual abuse of inmates at a small city jail in Forks, Washington.
The series exposed how city and state institutions ignored red flags, protected the guard, and failed the vulnerable women he preyed upon.
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DIGITAL VIDEO | KING 5 FEATURE | 3.1.19
Uncuffed: Former Inmate, Cop Form Friendship After Rocky Start (9:09)
Officer Jenifer Eshom set out to teach a woman in prison how to live uncuffed. But the cop had her own lessons to learn.
This mini-documentary published online as part of a six-chapter multimedia narrative.
TV PACKAGE | KING 5 - NBC NEWS INVESTIGATION | 2.26.20
A Doctor Diagnosing Child Abuse Is Missing A Key Thing: Her Certification to Do It (6:16)
Dr. Elizabeth Woods' report of abuse helped separate a Washington mother from her children. But a judge said Woods' testimony was “without supporting factual basis.”
This is the first of two broadcast reports that aired as part of a joint KING 5 - NBC News investigation. Read the written version of this investigation here.
TV PACKAGE | KING 5 - NBC NEWS INVESTIGATION | 2.27.20
Parents Face Unfounded Child Abuse Charges After Doctor Without Credentials Implicates Them
A Tacoma doctor lacks important training in detecting child abuse. Law enforcement officials relied on her opinions to arrest parents and charge them with crimes.
This is the second of two broadcast reports that aired as part of a joint KING 5 - NBC News investigation. Read the written version of this investigation here.
TV PACKAGE | KING 5 INVESTIGATION | 11.13.18
Army Leaders Fail Sick Soldier Who Needed Help (6:33)
This is Part 1 of "No Thank You For Your Service," an on-going investigation into the mistreatment of service members who suffer from combat trauma.
Former staff sergeant Kord Ball went to war for this country and came back forever changed. KING 5's Taylor Mirfendereski reveals how the safeguards in place to protect the wounded soldier fell apart and left him broken again.
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TV PACKAGE | KING 5 INVESTIGATION | 11.20.18
Whistleblowers: Army Ignoring Advice Of Medical Experts (5:26)
This is Part 2 of "No Thank You For Your Service," an on-going investigation into the mistreatment of service members who suffer from combat trauma.
Health care professionals at Joint Base Lewis McChord's Madigan Army Medical Center reveal the safeguards in place to protect wounded soldiers from wrongful punishment are not effective. They say the Army has a pattern of ignoring its own medical experts and unfairly punishing local soldiers recovering from the mental stress of combat.
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TV PACKAGE | KING 5 INVESTIGATION | 8.5.19
Lacey soldier punished, kicked out for combat trauma
This is Part 3 of "No Thank You For Your Service," an on-going investigation into the mistreatment of service members who suffer from combat trauma.
Jeffrey Smith served three tours in Afghanistan, but in 2019, he found himself fighting a new battle: a fight to leave the Army with honor and veterans benefits, like long-term medical help.
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DIGITAL VIDEO | KING5.COM | 4.11.17
Flag-waving Veteran Saving Lives On The Overpass (1:54)
For nearly a decade, thousands have caught a glimpse of Fred Pepper waving an American flag during their morning commute on Interstate 405 in Renton, WA.
KING 5's Taylor Mirfendereski stopped to find out why.
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TV PACKAGE | KING 5 | 10.27.17
Unshackled: A Prostitute's Journey To Freedom
Jennifer Tucker was trapped in the sex industry — beaten, raped and manipulated by customers and pimps for years. But something stronger than chains held her captive.
This is the TV version of a long-form nine-chapter multimedia narrative about Tucker's journey to freedom.
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DIGITAL STORY | KING 5 | 9.5.18
School Immunizations (3:57)
A KING 5 analysis of school immunization data revealed that most Washington schools are failing to meet the state's target for vaccinations.
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PHOTO ESSAY | KING 5 | 3.24.18
Seattle March For Our Lives
High school students led thousands of protesters in Seattle and in other cities across America on March 24, 2018 to demand tighter gun regulations following recent high-profile shootings.
This photo essay aired on TV and on KING5.com.
DIGITAL VIDEO | KING 5 | 2.22.18
Heroin's Children (3:19)
Alex Lovelace, who says she stopped using heroin in November 2016, had been preparing for weeks to give her daughter a new start.
But while the mother strives to make up for lost time with her kid, she faces a reality of heroin addiction that she never considered when she got high. Alia -- and thousands of other kids left behind by addicted parents -- know too much about a drug they should be too young to understand.
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TV PACKAGE | KING 5 | 2.10.17
Gender In Question (4:05)
This teenager's story is not a scenario many adults yet understand. But society’s concept of gender is dramatically changing, especially among youth. It’s a shift from a world where people only identified as either male or female, at least openly. Now, many consider gender a spectrum — independent of genitals — with endless options in between boy and girl.
DIGITAL VIDEO | WCPO.COM | 11.27.2014
Mission Critical: A broken soldier's way home (13:54)
As our nation's longest war winds down in Afghanistan, thousands of military families can thank an elite group of U.S. Air Force medical providers for bringing their critically-wounded loved ones home alive. Those doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists were trained at the University of Cincinnati's Medical Center in a program largely modeled after the civilian hospital's life-saving methods.
WCPO's Taylor Mirfendereski followed the military medical workers from the Cincinnati classroom to Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield, where one team would be called on to save a man's life.
WOUB PUBLIC MEDIA | DOCUMENTARY | 2014
Glass Half Empty: An American Water War (58:34)
In 2012, Taylor began following six families in northeast Pennsylvania who had been searching for clean drinking water ever since the natural gas industry came to town.
This story documents their journey navigating a complicated landscape, as the nation engaged in a fierce debate about hydraulic fracturing and its potential impact on drinking water resources.
Read about the documentary.