Yasu Tsuji
Video Editor @The New York Times
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WORK HISTORY
Video Editor @The New York Times
Los Angeles, CA, US
Video Editor for NYT’s LA Bureau Field Team
EDUCATION
UC San Diego
BA, Communications
SKILLS
ABOUT YASU TSUJI
Yasu Tsuji is a Director/Editor/Story Producer, who has been instrumental in various award-winning documentaries, non-scripted TV series, branded digital shorts, and feature-length films for two decades.He was nominated for a 2016 News & Documentary Emmy Award as a Producer/Editor for the work of “Prison Kids: A Crime Against America’s Children” at Fusion Network. He was also the Producer/Editor for a 2015 News & Documentary Emmy nominee “Pimp City: A Journey to the Center of the Sex Slave Trade” also for Fusion Network. Other notable accolades as Producer/Editor include \"Death by Fentanyl\"(winner of 2017 Alfred I. Du Pont Award),\"Naked Truth: Rigged\"(winner of Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award), and “ISIS Fighters” (winner of Scripps Howard Award).Yasu served as the Senior Editor and Producer for CBSN Originals (Now CBS News Reports) and created the documentary unit\'s artistic direction and production pipeline from the ground up. In the span of 4 and half years with CBS, he was involved in over 60 documentary projects as a director of photography, story producer, director, and editor.Trained as a Photographer/Documentary Editor, he applies a pragmatic approach to storytelling, maximizing every useful footage and creatively integrating it into a narrative.His clients include Vice Showtime, MasterClass, CNN, CBS News, Discovery, NatGeo TV, Fox, OWN, Fusion, RayBan, Intel, Google, EA, and Legendary.He is currently freelancing for various clients as a story producer/editor.
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