Winter 2020/2021: Todd wraps up work on A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere: The Untold Story of the Making a Fargo, a book about the 1996 Coen Brothers’ movie. The book will be published by MNHS Press in March 2021 and is now available for pre-order at…
Some Native American tribes have banned fracking on tribal lands. With vast deposits of oil underneath its borders, Three Affiliated Tribes is at a crossroads. Should the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in western North Dakota drill for black gold or outlaw oil exploration on its land? Tribal member Marty…
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In 2014, 2 below zero traveled to Biarritz, France for Smart FIPA, an interactive competition at the Festival International de Programes Audiovisual. 2 below zero’s Todd Melby presented Rough Ride: The Oil Patch Tour to the largely European audience. Rough Ride is the first interactive documentary from the Black Gold Boom…
A new four-part series on deaths and injuries in the oil patch hit North Dakota last week, as part of Todd’s Black Gold Boom. Supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Reporting, the series looked at a spike in the number of deaths by fumes and traffic accidents, as…
Black Gold Boom has been seemingly everywhere in recent months. Stories from the series have aired on several national public media shows, including Marketplace, Tell Me More, The Story, All Things Considered and PBS NewsHour. Others have written about the series, including Nieman Journalism Lab, The Current, The Arts Partnership and Columbia…
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