Director's Cut Blog with Frank Macek

On Monday March 16, HBO will debut a documentary, "Death on a Factory Farm" featuring undercover video taken at a Wayne County hog farm. WKYC investigated the issues raised in the undercover video in an award winning series of reports. The undercover video and the WKYC investigative pieces by reporter Bills Safos led to animal cruelty charges. The farmers were later acquitted of all but one charge. Bill Safos' work on the series earned him a Genesis Award in 2008 from the National Humane Society of the United States in the Local Reporting category. Video from the reports is part of the HBO documentary. " Death on a Factory Farm " debuts at 10 p.m. on Monday, March 16. To read the text from the stories click HERE or play the video clip below:

WKYC-TV has won a national Humane Society Award for a series of reports by WKYC reporter Bill Safos. Bill accepted the award at a star-studded Hollywood event. The Humane Society of the United States rolled out the red carpet at the 22nd annual Genesis Awards. CNN's Anderson Cooper, NBC's Hayden Panettiere and celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck were among the eclectic honorees announced on Saturday, March 29th in Beverly Hills, California. The Genesis Awards honor the news and entertainment media for showcasing animal protection issues, highlighting emerging concerns or bringing a fresh perspective to long-standing ones. Hosted by Bill Maher, winners included 60 Minutes, a CNN documentary called "Planet in Peril", a episode of CSI "Lying Down with Dogs," a Paramount film titled "Year of the Dog", and local news features on Cleveland's WKYC, WAGA in Atlanta, and KHOU in Houston. The WKYC news feature was a no-holds barred look at the appalling abuse i...

How many of these familiar faces can you remember from the Channel 3 News team back in 2006? Here are the correct answers! #1. Bill Safos (reporter)   #2. Lydia Esparra (reporter, anchor)     #3. Brian Colleran (sports reporter, anchor)       #4. Kristin Anderson (reporter, anchor)        #5. Jennifer Murphy (reporter, anchor)        #6. Andy Baskin (sports reporter, anchor)