MATT VETO
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Overcoming the silence
By Matt Veto for The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, Feb. 3, 2011.
Travis Green is a Moline High School wrestler who happens to be deaf. Dispatch/Argus sports reporter Matt Veto chronicles Green's effort to be defined by his success on the mat rather than his hearing impairment. Subtitles are provided.
This story won "First Place Video" in the dailies category of the 2011 Northern Illinois News Association awards.
Second chance, first opportunity through basketball
By Matt Veto for KBIA Radio, March 23, 2012.
Columbia’s Douglass High School provides at-risk students with a non-traditional classroom setting. And for 17 years, the Douglass Bulldogs basketball team has provided an extracurricular avenue for students to make friends, learn sportsmanship and compete.
This story won regional first place "Radio Sports Reporting" in the 2012 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards.