Martha Shade - Producer
Martha Shade
Producer
Martha Shade is a producer for CNN Special Projects.
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Colorectal cancer is on the rise in young adults: What to know and how to help
Mar 5, 2024
Here’s a sobering thought:
How to help Texas wildfire victims
Feb 29, 2024
The biggest wildfire to The Smokehouse Creek fire has grown to over 1 million acres burned in Texas, making it the largest fire on record in the state, surpassing the East Amarillo Complex fire in 2006.
Helping women with heart disease
Feb 13, 2024
About one in five American women will die from heart disease, yet funding for studies focusing on women lag behind.
’Tis the season for family holiday projects and gifts that give back
Dec 18, 2023
Looking for a more meaningful holiday this year? We’ve compiled a list of ideas for your family, along with some gifts that give back.
How a lonely mountain lion led to the creation of the world’s largest wildlife overpass
Oct 8, 2023
It sounds like the plot of a Disney movie: a mountain lion named P-22, trapped from finding a mate by the Los Angeles freeway, becomes famous and inspires the construction of the world’s largest wildlife overpass.
Some easy (or mostly easy) life changes that have a big impact on the world’s oceans
Sep 16, 2023
It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out – but don’t click away in despair!
Want to help the ocean? Avoid the moisturizer with shark in it
Apr 22, 2023
It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out – but don’t click away in despair!
Champion adaptive surfer knows the power of resilience
Jan 9, 2023
Adaptive surfer Meira Va’a Nelson lost her mother as a young child and was paralyzed by a car accident by the time she was a teen. Now she inspires others to tackle life’s big challenges.
Holiday gifts that give back
Dec 9, 2022
The holiday season is a lot different this year, but it’s still a time of love, giving and gratitude. So why not start some new holiday traditions to maintain the good cheer? Here are some gifts you can put together during this time when so many are apart.
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Author Sebastian Junger on the importance of giving blood
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Nov 26, 2022
Author and journalist Sebastian Junger almost died of blood loss following the rupture of his pancreatic artery. It made him think about a friend he lost too soon and about the importance of donating blood.
The pandemic shut down her chateau. Then she became a YouTube star
Jul 26, 2022
“The Chateau Diaries,” the unlikely YouTube quarantine hit, has made a star of Stephanie Jarvis and her friends and family. Find out how they’ve lived in a French chateau during the pandemic.
A Canadian man drives a stranded American family 1,000 miles to Alaska
Mar 26, 2021
There’s nice, and then there’s Canadian-nice, which sometimes involves driving a total stranger, her two kids, a pair of elderly dogs and a cat named “Midnight” more than a thousand miles through a snowstorm to another country.
About
Martha Shade is a producer for Special Projects, based out of CNN’s World Headquarters in Atlanta. She started her career in Honolulu, working as a radio reporter in the afternoon and producing TV newscasts at night. Shade then worked for ABC News in Los Angeles and New York, and for Fox News in Los Angeles. Shade was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and holds both Canadian and American citizenship.
