Profile: Mike Chapman
Senior Post-Production Editor
Senior Post Production Editor Mike Chapman is an Emmy Award-winner who has been editing for most of his 25-year career.
Mike started in local news in Cleveland, Ohio before joining NBC News in New York, where he became an editor for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and NBC Overnight, becoming the youngest editor (at 23) to do so. Later moving to the NBC Boston Bureau, where he edited for national correspondents Lisa Myers and Fred Briggs, often traveling to remote locations with a complete edit system. Mike covered the Challenger explosion, the Dukakis presidential campaign, and the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic, among many other national stories.
Mike moved to The Monitor Channel in 1988, and was awarded an Emmy for post production editing on the public-affairs show “Inner City Beat.”
Following Monitor, Mike’s freelance editing credits include PBS’ “Frontline”, ESPN’s “Outside the Lines”, and the television feature program, “Chronicle”, along with a freelance stint as post production editor for news at WBZ.
Mike has always stayed on the cutting edge of video editing technology, occasionally leaving the edit room to work for Avid, Pinnacle Systems, and Facilis Technology He is one of a highly select group of editors from around the world to attend the Avid Master Editor Workshop. Mike is also a presenter at the annual Post Production Conference at NAB, and has been profiled up in Post magazine, twice.
Mike is a graduate of Hampshire College, where he actually started his career as a jack-of-all-trades in student television, helping to create a weekly, student-produced show that is still going over a quarter-century later!