Roger McCord

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Roger McCord is a freelance videojournalist that contributes the Chasing Maine series to The Maine Monitor.

He has had a wide-ranging career in journalism, spanning the gamut from writing/reporting to daily news photography to working on various news desks as an editor. The most recent incarnation is in video production, usually brief features and mini-documentaries in and about Maine.

His video journalism has been recognized by the Maine Press Association and has been a finalist for the New England Emmy Awards.

Contact Roger with questions or concerns: rogermccord@gmail.com

A snowplow deposits snow into the back of a dump truck.

Chasing Maine: The Road Warriors

Snowstorms are a way of life in Maine. Clearing the streets before dawn requires a massive effort. Hop on board with Portland's plow team road warriors to see how it's done.
holiday light display on lawn

Chasing Maine: The Holiday Lights

The Norton family’s dazzling Christmas light show draws a nightly throng of sightseers to their Wells home. But there's more than spectacle at the heart of Norton Lights – since 2009, the displays have collected more than $90,000 in donations for Make-A-Wish Maine.
C. E. Morse leans ever so slightly into a junked car a junk yard with his camera to photograph the interior of the car.

Chasing Maine: The Boneyard Hunter

Photographer C E Morse, whose work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, demonstrates how he finds and creates his abstract compositions in a shooting session at an auto salvage yard in Oxford.
A bird clinging to a cage looks around the side of the cage towards the camera.

Chasing Maine: The Quarantine

As the coronavirus pandemic relentlessly continues, producer Roger McCord documents his experience with a 14-day quarantine mandate — and one version of how to deal with isolation.
Larry Berz seen speaking during an interview

Chasing Maine: The Astronomer

For astronomy instructor and northern Maine planetarium director Larry Berz, the study of space is an existential science. Recognizing our small role in the scheme of the universe is humbling and can evoke compassion in our daily lives.
machinery in the process of harvesting potatoes

Chasing Maine: The Harvesters

Maine's potato harvest is a grueling, four-week marathon of 12-hour days. At Double G Farms in the Aroostook County town of Blaine, the Garrison family produces 14,000 tons of potatoes a year. This year, a prolonged drought has made the ground harder to dig.