Matt Danzico is a roving American designer, journalist, filmmaker, and executive producer.
He is also an unabashedly enthusiastic experimental media creator.
As an executive at NBC News in New York, Danzico founded the visual media lab NBC Left Field, a group that developed new storytelling technologies and produced award-winning documentaries. In a similar role heading up visual innovation at BBC News in London, he launched and oversaw the development of digital products and teams, including BBC Trending. His teams have garnered Webby Awards, a Peabody, and dozens of national and international awards.
Serving as a journalist and filmmaker himself, he crafted and launched the world’s first mobile news bureau through which he presented his own documentary program on BBC World Television. Danzico's own reporting has also received international awards and press attention. And in 2019, he was nominated for Journalist of the Year by the Shorty Awards.
timeline
2020: Crafted films for GrrCo clients across Africa and Asia
2019: Opened GrrCo Studios, a boutique creative and production agency
2018: Crafted NBC documentaries across Asia
2017: Joined NBC News Digital as an exec and founded NBC Left Field Studios
2016: Made BBC films in Russia, India, Kenya
2015: Launched BBC Pop Up internationally
2014: Launched BBC Pop Up bureaus in US
2013: Created BBC video innovation lab in UK
2012: Helped jumpstart digital video for BBC in US
2011: Reported for BBC and began The Time Hack project
As for design, the origins of some of the biggest social media accounts in news and information started as sketches in Danzico’s notebook and prototypes on his phone.
Matt has recently opened his own consultancy and boutique creative group, GrrCo Studios, aimed at everything from digital and industrial design to scripted and nonfiction news programming—all with an eye on innovative storytelling.
Danzico is often on the move and has crafted films, projects, and reports across Africa, Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, India, Russia, and other regions around the world.
When not working, he can be found surfing, working at becoming a better photographer, or attempting to tame a mountain in Vermont that he and his wife now occassionally call home.
Today, he splits time between the U.S. and Spain.
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2010: Helped launch the BBC News website in US
2009: Spearheaded Simons Foundation video
2008: Worked with Discovery Channel
2007: Created web’s first online travel show
2006: Reported on media for The Tokyo Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper