What does it actually take to find a true story — and what nobody tells you about doing it for a living?
Emmy-winning journalist Dayvee Sutton opens her own archive — starting with 32 self-produced travel episodes from 2015–2019, distributed on Amazon Prime, never released on YouTube until now. Each episode revisits real footage to unpack how she found the story in the first place — what was hosted, what she went looking for on her own, and what was actually true versus what she was being shown.
Hosted by Dayvee Sutton, Dream Network Media.
The Two Questions I Ask Everywhere on a Hosted Trip: Jackson County Rewatch
Not every invite comes from a famous destination. This one came from a place Dayvee Sutton had never heard of until it landed in her inbox.In this rewatch of Beyond the Usual, the travel series she self-produced and distributed on Amazon Prime Video, the national broadcast journalist revisits a 2017 hosted trip to Jackson County, North Carolina. She walks through what she does when nobody is searching for a place, starting with the two questions she asks everywhere she goes: What do the locals call this? What's the saying around here?She also talks about CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman, who built a series out of picking strangers from the phone book, and why this episode worked once she stopped pretending to be the expert.
23 Oct 2026
How I Turn a Multi-Stop Itinerary Into One Story: Lake Tahoe Rewatch
Hand a journalist an itinerary with three resorts on it and you've handed her three short videos. The work on her side of the table is finding the one thread that makes them a single story.
In this rewatch of Beyond the Usual, the travel series she self-produced and distributed on Amazon Prime Video, national broadcast journalist Dayvee Sutton goes back to a 2017 hosted trip to Lake Tahoe. She had never been on skis. Across a week at Northstar, Heavenly and Sierra-at-Tahoe, that became the arc: a goal stated early, two instructors who kept raising the bar, and a payoff on the big mountain.
She also talks through where a branded moment fits once the story exists, and the line her production company works by: if it's a good story, nobody cares that it's an ad.
9 Oct 2026
The Hook Formula I Didn't Know I Was Using: Palm Beaches Rewatch
In 2017 I opened an episode with a stat that sounds like the last thing you'd lead with: over half the population of the Palm Beaches is 65 and older. Then I said, don't worry, we're gonna rock it.
This episode rewatches that promise against the footage: Canvas's outdoor murals, the Silver Ball Museum's vintage arcade, Delray Beach's chain-free restaurant strip, Saltwater Brewery's eco-conscious packaging, a Pontiki boat tour past Mar-a-Lago, and a massage at O Spa to close the trip out.
The actual lesson isn't about the Palm Beaches. It's about what a hook needs to be built from: not a twist, not a gimmick, just one assumption your audience already holds, said out loud, and answered by the end.
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