JAIME BEDRIN .98
Reporter
Jaime Bedrin '98 is an award-winning reporter and on-air host in Charlotte, N.C. She works for the local public radio station WFAE (90.7fm), where’s she’s reported on everything from trends in senior care to bee keeping. She's filed stories for National Public Radio and for Marketplace. You can catch her online www.wfae.org. In addition, she writes a monthly beauty column for The Charlotte Observer called Product Perfect. Check out her website: www.productperfect.net.
(Last Udpated 12.23.05)
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RICK BEYER .78
Documentary Film Producer
Author
Rick Beyer is the author of The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy, a book which The Chicago Tribune describes as “an old fashioned sweetshop full of tasty morsels.” A new book, The Greatest War Stories Never Told, is scheduled for publication in November of 2005. Rick has produced numerous documentary projects for The History Channel including Secrets of Jamestown, The Wright Challenge, The Patent Files and Timelab 2000, an acclaimed collection of 200 history minutes hosted by Sam Waterston. In addition, he was the Executive Producer of the innovative (but little watched!) A&E documentary series Meet the Royals. Before starting Plate of Peas Productions in 2004, Rick was the Executive Producer of the Smash Entertainment Group. He has also been a radio reporter, a TV News Producer, an Advertising Creative Director, and a janitor at the Tuck School.
(Last Udpated 04.11.05)
www.rickbeyer.net
Plate of Peas Productions
JACKSON BURKE .03
Clip Desk Producer
After leaving school, Jackson's first job in television was as a Production Assistant with Fox News. Jackson left that after about two months after being offered a job with the NBC Page Program. He was a Page for about nine months, and over that time had assignments in the Sports Corporate Communications division and a production assignment with the CNBC show Capitol Report. Jackson started his new job as a Clip Desk Producer in January, 2005.
(Last Udpated 01.30.05)
TY BURR .80
Film Critic, Boston Globe
Ty Burr is the film critic for the Boston Globe, a position he has held since July 2002. For ten years prior to that, he worked for Entertainment Weekly as the magazine's chief video critic, and also covered film, music, theater, books, and the internet. He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, serving as an in-house "film evaluator" and helping to put Corey Haim movies on Cinemax. Burr has written two books, "The Hundred Greatest Movies of All Time" (Time-Life Books, 1999) and "The Hundred Greatest Stars of All Time" (Time-Life Books, 1998) and has written articles on film and other subjects in the New York Times, Spin, the Boston Phoenix, and other publications. A member of the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics, Burr studied film at Dartmouth and New York University. He lives in Newton, MA.
(Last Udpated 03.04.05)
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NATHAN CHUNG .07
While working toward his computer science degree, Nathan realized he did not enjoy programming too much. It prompted him to explore his long-held interest in photography and film through taking lots of photographs, making student films, and working as an assistant for the college's Media Production Group. After graduating in December of 2007, he took some time off, took more photographs, traveled, and worked as an assistant/Korean-English translator for Nora Jacobson '74 on the feature film "The Hanji Box." He moved to New York City in August of 2008 to work as a part-time intern for Howard Weinberg '62 on the documentary "TV LAB: License to Create." He has a deep interest in cinematography and technical aspects of filmmaking, and he is seeking to do more hands-on work as a member of a production crew.
(Last Udpated 10.08.08)
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IGA CZARNAWSKA .04
Director,
Documentary Filmmaker
Originally from Poland, Iga is a film director and documentary filmmaker with an international spirit. She made her first short film at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, Great Britain, and came to Dartmouth to major in Film Studies. There, she completed a 16 mm short, "My Kite", and two documentaries: "The Aliens: Being a Foreign Student" (dist. Intercultural Press) and "From the Body Cage", a portrayal of the internal world of bulimia (Senior Fellowship Project). She received the Heiman-Rosenthal Award and the Sudler Prize for the totality of her artistic achievement at Dartmouth, and a Lombard Fellowship to make a documentary in India in Fall 2005. Her recent doc work is alternative in form and ventures to marry reality with cinematic story-telling techniques. Currently, she is TA-ing film production at our Alma Mater and developing two fiction scripts.
(Last Udpated 02.07.05)
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TRACEY DEER .00
Documentary Filmmaker
After graduation, Tracey Deer began working for CanWest Broadcasting's nightly news program in Montreal. Four months later she joined Rezolution Pictures, also out of Montreal, as a production assistant on a feature-length documentary they had just begun. Within three months she was promoted to co-director and co-DOP of One More River, a 96-minute process documentary that followed the emotional and political turmoil involved within the Cree Nation when they signed a new deal to allow more hydroelectric damning on their land. The film won the Best Documentary Award at the Rendez-vous des Cinema Quebecois in Feb. 2005 and was nominated for the Donald Brittain Best Social/Political Documentary at the Geminis (Canadian Television awards.) The film was broadcast on APTN in March 2005. Her second film, Mohawk Girls, a 63-minute process documentary, was a solo effort that she directed, filmed and wrote about the lives of three Mohawk teenagers growing up on the Kahnawake reserve. It won the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award at the Imaginenative Film Festival in 2005 and aired on APTN in February 2006. Her latest projects are a feature documentary examining the concept of modern Native identity and a short film that plays with the same issues. Her production company, Mohawk Princess Productions, is presently developing a number of projects.
(Last Udpated 02.16.06)
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JOHN DONVAN .77
Correspondent, Nightline
John Donvan is a correspondent for ABC News "Nightline,"and occasional substitute anchor for Ted Koppel. He has served over a career of more than two decades in the following capacities for ABC News: Chief White House Correspondent, Chief Moscow Correspondent, Amman Bureau Chief, Jerusalem Correspondent, and Correspondent for the ABC News Magazine "Turning Point." More recently, Donvan has received positive reviews for his work covering the war in Iraq as a unilateral reporter, for which the "Chicago Sun Times" named him one of the ten war stars.
(Last Udpated 02.01.05)
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BILL DORMAN .81
Editing Manager, Correspondent
CNNfn, CNN Business News
Bill Dorman is managing editor and a correspondent for CNNfn and CNN Business News, the division of the CNN News Group that produces business news for CNN/U.S., CNN International, CNN Headline News, CNN Airport Network, CNNRadio, and the Web site CNNfn.com. Dorman also anchors "The Interpreter's Desk," where he offers interpretation of the day's market activity and communicates what it means to each type of investor, providing candid market analysis that is accessible to all viewers. Dorman previously had been a correspondent for CNN Business News based in Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 1999, and from Tokyo from 1992 to 1997. He has covered stories from more than a dozen countries. Dorman joined CNN in 1983 as a news writer at the network's headquarters in Atlanta. He later worked as a package producer and program producer in Atlanta, and then as a supervising producer for CNN in Washington, D.C. From August 1989 to January 1991, Dorman was a supervising producer for CNN Business News in New York, with primary responsibility for the Moneyline News Hour. Prior to joining CNN, he worked at Independent Network News in Washington, D.C., and in local news in Harrisburg, Pa., and San Diego, Calif. He has also reported from Nicaragua for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and from Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Toronto Star. Dorman has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in English from Dartmouth College.
(Last Udpated 02.05.05)
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MARTIN DOWNS DMS .07
Freelance Writer
Martin F. Downs has been working as a health journalist since 2000. He started out as a Web editor at CBS HealthWatch in New York, and went on to be a freelance writer. He has been writing news and features for WebMD regularly since 2002. He has written for many other publications online and in print, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, New York Press, and Salon. As a sideline to writing about health and medicine, he does general assignment reporting for newspapers in the Upper Valley. Downs received a Master of Public Health degree from CECS (now the Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice) at Dartmouth in 2007. He lives in Meriden, New Hampshire with his wife, Zara, and their daughter, Esme.
(Last Udpated 03.04.08)
www.mfdowns.com
KATIE ESCHERICH .02
Associate Producer
ABC News
Katie Escherich works at ABC News in New York. After graduating from Dartmouth, she joined Major League Baseball Productions as a production assistant for the 2002 World Series Home Video. She moved to ABC News just as the war in Iraq began, and spent the first few weeks on the job as a PA for their round the clock coverage. She has spent the last two years as the assistant to the senior producers at 20/20, where she worked as a PA on a number of 20/20 segments, and excelled at answering the phone and ordering lunch on the side. She recently began working as an associate producer at ABC News Now, ABC's new 24-hour broadband and digital cable channel. Katie majored in History at Dartmouth and was a member of Tridelt. She enjoys staying connected to Dartmouth as a class agent and an alumni interviewer.
(Last Udpated 03.09.05)
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MORGAN FAUST .00
Documentary Filmmaker
Morgan Faust began working for filmmaker Errol Morris 2 days after graduation. After working as personal assistant to Mr. Morris, and graphic coordinator for his tv series First Person, Morgan left for Virginia where she made her first film, the award winning documentary, "The Treasure of Thomas Beale". She recently produced her first feature film, Mutual Appreciation (premiering at SXSW March 2005), and worked as the Associate Producer for the PBS program They Made America. Morgan was named filmmaker-in-residence for 2005 at WGBH in Boston, and is currently working on a documentary about the meaning of love, and why we fall in love with the people we do.
(Last Udpated 02.01.05)
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JON FAUER .72
Cinematographer
Jon Fauer has been shooting films since he was 8 years old. His first major film, Wildwater, commissioned by the U.S. Kayak Team, featured the World Whitewater Championships in Italy. The film, and the numerous awards it won, led to documentaries around the world: skiing, kayaking, and action adventure specials for ABC, PBS, American Sportsman, and National Geographic in the jungles of Guatemala, the mountains of New Zealand, and the Altiplano of Bolivia; from the North Pole to the Chesapeake. His work led to membership in The Explorers Club of New York. Jon Fauer became a camera operator when Andy Laszlo asked him if he could ski backwards with a camera. However, the film was mainly about bob-sledding and love, which qualified him as a busy camera operator on many features for the next five years. When Jon changed his card to Director of Photography, he shot commercials, features, and television films. He has won many awards for his work, including Best Cinematography at the NY Festivals, Gold Camera Award for Best Cinematography at the US International Film Festival, CINE Gold Eagles, CINDY Golds, Tellies, BOLI's, Chris's, and Worldmedals. He is author of three best-selling books on cinematography: Arriflex 16SR3: The Book, The 16SR Book and The Arriflex 35 Book. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, Directors Guild of America, Explorers Club.
(Last Udpated 02.05.05)
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MATT FRUCCI .00
Producer
Good Morning America
Matt Frucci is a producer at ABC News‚ Good Morning America, based in New York City. Matt has worked at ABC News for four years in various capacities. In 2003, he spent four months in the Middle East as a field producer covering the build up to the Iraq War, and was embedded with the US Navy on an aircraft carrier and guided missile cruiser for the war itself. Currently, Matt produces feature stories and helps oversee coverage of breaking news for the weekend edition of Good Morning America.
(Last Udpated 02.16.05)
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ELENA GHANOTAKIS .01
Documentary Producer
Elena Ghanotakis has a B.A. in government and a masters in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has done policy and fieldwork related to HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases all over the world, including Argentina, the Caribbean, Denmark, India and South Africa. She currently works for the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS initiative. This is her first documentary project, a short documentary for Frontline World about rape in South Africa. The documentry can be viewed on-line here.
(Last Udpated 01.17.08)
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ALICE GOMSTYN .03
Business Reporter, ABC News
Alice Gomstyn is a business reporter with ABC News. Since joining ABC News in January 2008, Gomstyn has reported a variety of stories on the economy, Wall Street and everyday issues facing the American consumer, including the mortgage crisis, the rise of payday lending and the consequences of high gas prices.She has also covered the financial issues behind the day's news, including the business of high-end prostitution (following the Eliot Spitzer scandal) and the impact of flooding in the Midwest on the construction industry. Gomstyn began her career at newspapers, working as an education reporter and blogger at The Journal News in New York and as a municipal reporter at The Providence Journal in Rhode Island, where she was honored with two awards for feature and profile writing from the Rhode Island Press Association. Her work has also appeared in The Boston Globe and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Gomstyn graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in government.
(Last Udpated 08.31.08)
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RASHAAD ERNESTO GREEN .00
Actor, Writer, Director
Rashaad was born in the Bronx, NY and bred in NYC. It wasn't until college that he discovered his passion for the arts. Starting his career as an actor, Rashaad received a BA from Dartmouth College and a MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program, where he also began to write and direct. After three years of gaining insight into the industry, acting in theaters nationwide and working with directors like Spike Lee, Rashaad worked for a year as a teacher in the South Bronx before turning his efforts behind the camera to tell stories. He currently studies film at NYU's Graduate Film Program. His first film, The Can Collector, about a man who makes his living off the streets reliving his childhood dreams, screened at Lincoln Center accompanied by a live orchestra as part of the Lincoln Center Golden Silents Festival. His short documentary, 50 Shots, will be premiering at the Real Life Documentary Festival in Ghana June 2008. And his next film, Premature, follows the journey of one teenage girl who discovers she's pregnant.
(Last Udpated 05.28.08)
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J.J. HANLEY .82
Documentary Producer
For producer J.J. Hanley, the power of documentary film is found in the poignancy of life. Real people. Global experiences. Diverse perspectives. Great documentary both challenges and enlightens, often through something as simple as the wave of a hand or a pause between words. From this belief came the vision behind Kartemquin Educational Film's latest production, REGRIGERATOR MOTHERS, which J.J. conceptualized, developed and produced. The film grew from her personal experience with the legacy of mother blame in the treatment of autism. Her youngest son struggles with autism spectrum disorder, a little-understood disorder even today. The film has won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the Sedona International Film Festival, 2002 and the Grand Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival, 2002. It was an official selection at the Full Frame (DoubleTake) Documentary Film Festival, 2002. J.J. attributes the success of REGRIGERATOR MOTHERS to a combination of visionary drive by a new producer and the artistic and technical skill of veteran filmmakers.
(Last Udpated 02.07.05)
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JAMIE HELLER .89
Deputy Managing Editor
Wall Street Journal Online
Jamie is a New York-based journalist. She has been a reporter at SmartMoney magazine, an editor at TheStreet.com, and a contributing columnist to CBS MarketWatch.com. Most recently, she joined the Wall Street Journal Online as deputy managing editor. She lives in lower Manhattan with her husband Jed Weissberg and their son Chet.
(Last Udpated 03.15.05)
WSJ Online
JOEL HYATT .72
CEO, IndTV
Joel Z. Hyatt is the CEO of IndTV a new 24 hour cable network that he established with former Vice-President Al Gore. INdTV is running a Pilot Project to generate new ideas and new video. They're taking submissions from the community and it's a chance to shape the content of a new kind of TV network and get work in front of a big audience on the web and TV.
(Last Udpated 02.09.05)
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PETER IMBER .68
Producer, ABC News
Peter Imber has been a producer for ABC News since 1992 and a videotape editor for ABC News for 10 years before that. He is based in Los Angeles and works primarily for World News and Nightline. He has covered many of the the big news stories in the West during the last 25 years but prefers the smaller ones about people, places and things.
(Last Udpated 07.11.07)
LAURA INGRAHAM .85
Political Commentator
Laura Ingraham's nationally syndicated radio show is heard coast-to-coast on the Talk Radio Network and is one of the fastest growing radio programs in the U.S. She is the author of the book The Hillary Trap, and her columns have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The New York Sun. She has worked for CBS News and MSNBC (for Watch It! With Laura Ingraham,1996-2000), and is a frequent political commentator on Fox News and CNN. While at Dartmouth, she was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review. In 1991, she received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. During her time at UVA, she was the notes editor of the Law Review. She is a former white-collar criminal defense attorney of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, and served as a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for the Supreme Court of the United States for Justice Clarence Thomas. Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Education.
(Last Udpated 02.18.05)
STEVEN KANTOR .03
Documentary and Reality TV Producer
Steve is a freelance documentary and reality television producer based in New York. He has produced and shot on several series currently on the air, including Kansas City SWAT, Flip This House, and Haunting Evidence. His work has aired on A&E, Court TV, Vh1, the Food Network and AMC, among others.
(Last Udpated 03.25.07)
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JACQUELINE KEELER .91
Documentary Filmmaker
After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1992, Jacqueline Keeler (Dineh/Nakota Indian) pursued a career in journalism and documentary filmmaking. She is currently an associate editor for the Pacific News Service, and freelances for a number of other publications, including Colorlines Magazine and Pacifica Radio. Jacqueline is also a filmmaker and is editing Anpetu Sa, her film about the Indigenous Rights Movement.
(Last Udpated 05.21.05)
DAVID KELLEY .79
Executive Producer
Primetime Specials
MSNBC
David Kelley is the Executive Producer of Primetime Specials at MSNBC, overseeing live and tape special programming at the network since 2005. Before that, he was at NBC News for 3 years, as Special Projects Producer, producing a variety of stories for various NBC News Programs including Dateline, Nightly News and Today. He was also Brian Williams' Anchor Producer in 2004 during Willams' transition to NBC News Anchor and Managing Editor. Prior to NBC, Kelley was at ABC News for 22 years, where he held numerous positions, including: Segment Producer, Broadcast Producer and Senior Producer at PrimeTime Live; Senior Producer at 20/20; and Senior Producer and Domestic Editor at World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. He also produced many live and tape special programs and is a recipient of the Emmy, Peabody and Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards.
(Last Udpated 02.27.06)
JULIAN KESNER .00
Senior Editor
Prevention Magazine
Julian Kesner is a senior editor at Prevention Magazine, a Rodale publication. He was formerly a staff features writer at the New York Daily News for three years, where his primary beat was health & medicine. He lives in Manhattan.
(Last Udpated 08.28.07)
Prevention Magazine
JASON E. KLEIN .82
President & CEO
Newspaper National Network LP
Jason E. Klein is President & CEO of Newspaper National Network LP, a private partnership owned by 24 of the largest U.S. newspaper companies, including Tribune, Gannett, Hearst, Advance, McClatchy, MediaNews, New York Times, and the Washington Post. NNN provides customized solutions for national advertisers utilizing newspapers in all formats - print, online, inserts, and mobile - daily, Sunday, Hispanic/ethnic - weeklies and suburban papers. Mr. Klein was CEO of Times Mirror Magazines, a leading magazine publisher with $300 million in revenues and 25 titles including Golf, Popular Science, Transworld Skateboarding,and Field & Stream. He led the successful sale to Time Inc. for $475 million in 2000. Klein was also President & CEO of Healthy Living Media, a private-equity backed venture backed focused on fitness, health, and wellness. Mr. Klein also was director of strategy for Times Mirror's B2B units. Mr. Klein is a former management consultant who began his career with Bain in California in the 1980s and moved to McKinsey in New York where he specialized in strategy development for media and consumer goods companies. Mr. Klein's clients included leading television networks in the USA and abroad, major consumer packaged goods companies, and a leading department store chain. Mr. Klein holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Dartmouth College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude in computer science. He is on the boards of the New York City Police Foundation, the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, and the American Advertising Federation, and is a past board member of the Magazine Publishers of America. Mr. Klein was recognized by Media Magazine as one of "100 People to Know" in the media industry.
(Last Udpated 03.24.08)
MORTON KONDRACKE .60
Co-host, The Beltway Boys
Fox News
Morton Kondracke, a 37-year veteran journalist, joined the FOX team in October 1996 and became co-host of The Beltway Boys, along with Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard. Kondracke is also a regular contributor on FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume. He served 16 years as a regular panelist on the NBC/PBS public affairs show, The McLaughlin Group, seen on over 350 stations nationwide. Before becoming the executive editor and columnist of Roll Call, Kondracke served as executive editor and senior editor of The New Republic from 1977-91. He was the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek, a regular panelist on This Week with David Brinkley, and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In addition, Kondracke received the Washington Post "Crystal Ball Award" in 1994 for predicting the Republican takeover of Congress and was runner-up in 1996. Kondracke chronicled his wife Milly's struggle with Parkinson’s disease in his 2001 book entitled Saving Milly. Personally and professionally dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease, he is a member of both the Parkinson's Action Network and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
(Last Udpated 03.11.05)
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MICHAEL LAROCCA .03
Documentary Filmmaker
After Dartmouth, Michael Larocca was Executive Assistant to Scott Rudin and worked on THE VILLAGE, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, STEPFORD WIVES, LIFE AQUATIC and I HEART HUCKABEE'S. Michael recently formed his own LLC for the purposes of producing/directing a documentary on the last election seen through the eyes of sportsmen in Ohio -- The project is call VOTE HUNTING and he is currently shooting as he closes the first round of financing.
(Last Udpated 02.18.05)
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REBECCA LEFFLER .04
Writer / Editor
After graduating 2004, Rebecca received a Reynold's grant from Dartmouth to study contemporary French cinema. She has been living in Paris since October interviewing the new generation of French directors, seeing as many films as possible and writing about her experiences. She is currently working in International Publicity and Editorial at Le Film Français, the trade magazine for professionals of the French film industry. Rebecca will be an editor of Cannes Market News, the official daily magazine of the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. She has previously had internships at LIFE Magazine in New York, United International Pictures in London, Film Movement in New York and Mediaedge CIA in Paris. Rebecca has a B.A. from Dartmouth in French Studies and wrote her senior honors thesis on French film. She hopes to pursue a career in the international film industry.
(Last Udpated 03.14.05)
www.lefilmfrancais.com
JOHN LIPPMAN .71
VP, News & Operations
Univision Television Group
John Lippman is vice president of news and operations for Univision Television Group, coordinating news, promotion, and production activities of the 25 stations of the nation’s largest Spanish language broadcaster. Lippman has been news director at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, and KIRO-TV and KSTW-TV in Seattle. He also has worked as a producer, assignment editor, reporter and videotape editor. Lippman has a Bachelor’s degree in history and urban studies from Dartmouth College.
(Last Udpated 02.08.05)
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JASON MALONEY .91
Videojournalist
Jason Maloney is a freelance videojournalist living in New York. He frequently produces political news segments for the CNN program Paula Zahn Now and develops independent documentary projects on key global issues. Mostly recently, Maloney traveled to the Darfur region of Sudan to report for the CBS News program 60 Minutes on the humanitarian crisis there. In 2002 and 2003, Maloney worked at New York Times Television. He was assigned to an investigative unit tasked with producing joint projects with PBS FRONTLINE. Both documentaries he worked on earned substantial recognition. The first, “A Dangerous Business” won DuPont, Polk, and Peabody awards, and even a Pulitzer prize. Also at New York Times Television, Maloney produced segments for PBS on Saudi financing of terrorism and the Iraqi Opposition. While based in Southeast Asia in 2001-2002, Maloney produced, shot and edited “A Dirty War” for NOW with Bill Moyers on the civil war in Aceh, Indonesia. In 1999, he produced his first independent documentary while on a IRP Fellowship in Guinea-Bissau. From 1996 to 2001 Maloney worked at ABC News Primetime Live, with assignments that took him from Siberia to Yemen to the Deep South. “The Unwanted Children of Russia” won the DuPont, Overseas Press Club, and RFK awards. “Germ Warfare: Weapons of Terror” and “Attack on the USS Cole” both won the New York Festivals Award.
(Last Udpated 02.05.05)
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CAITLIN McNALLY .03
Documentary Producer
Caitlin McNally works for Ark Media, a documentary film company in New York. With Ark, she has associate produced A Hidden Life and Growing Up Online, both for PBS's FRONTLINE. She also worked as an associate producer for Rory Kennedy's HBO documentary "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib," the 2007 Primetime Emmy award winner. Caitlin wrote, co-produced and edited 'Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47,' a short film about China's involvement in Africa for FRONTLINE/World. Before joining Ark, Caitlin traveled Morocco shooting 'Gnawa,' a short documentary about sub-Saharan musicians. She lives in Brooklyn.
(Last Udpated 03.04.08)
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JOHN MERROW .89
Executive Producer / Host
The Merrow Report (PBS)
John Merrow is the host and executive producer of "The Merrow Report" on both PBS and NPR, and president of Learning Matters, Inc. the not-for-profit corporation that produces our television and radio/web programs and directs our effort to train youth to create their own public service messages. He is also author of Choosing Excellence: "Good Enough" Schools are Not Good Enough. Previously, Merrow was a commentator on NPR's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," and "Marketplace." He was the executive producer and host of "Your Children, Our Children," a seven–part documentary series about children in America, aired nationally on PBS in English and Spanish. He was an education correspondent for "the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS, and a principal correspondent for the five-part PBS series, "Learning in America." Earlier in his career, he won more than two dozen national awards for the popular NPR series, "Options in Education," which he produced and hosted. He has also taught high school English in Virginia and New York.
(Last Udpated 03.04.05)
The Merrow Report
AKEXANDER NAZARYAN .02
Freelance Writer
Alexander Nazaryan is a freelancer writer and contribute regularly for the Village Voice and many other New York publications.
(Last Udpated 10.08.08)
The Merrow Report
TOM NELSON .67
Production Sound Mixer
Tom Nelson started as a combat cameraman in the US Marine Corps, then after graduation came to New York and shot for a while here. A few years after arriving in New York he ran into another cameraman who wanted to make a film on two farmers in upstate Connecticut. Ssing his experience as Production Manager at WDCR and my musical abilities (he's played the violin all his life) he learned to become a soundman/editor. It took them two years to shoot, edit, and complete the feature documentary, which still plays at the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, NY. The rest is history. He has alternated between features and documentaries for many years. However for the past two decades he have been working as a Production Sound Mixer in Motion Pictures. He have been blessed by the opportunity to collaborate with some of the finest directors and actors in film. 'The Brave One" and "August Rush" are two films out now for which he recorded the sound, with "The Accidental Husband" being released soon (shot by William Rexer '86).
(Last Udpated 11.28.07)
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NANCY OEY .81
Producer
Nancy Oey is currently producing El BEISBOL, an historical and cultural look at Latinos and Major League Baseball. She is also known for spearheading and producing three one-hour HIGHER SELF documentaries for Russell Simmons' production company, SLMG. For HIGHER SELF, Ms Oey created the budget, wrote the documentaries, and hired the creative team. She has also recently completed writing and field producing assignments for PBS's new science series, WIRED SCIENCE, airing nationally in 2007 and 2008. Her producing and writing credits include a long list of documentaries for the History Channel, among them: Rome: The Mobile Society; Egypt: Iconic Structure; and China: Masters of the Wind. She has also produced and written programs for the History Channel's MODERN MARVELS series, including Modern Marvels: The World Trade Center, a program she has co-produced and written with colleague, Bob Petrella. The program was lauded by the New York Times and was the highest rated television show for the History Channel in 2001. She has also written and produced, Modern Marvels: Bullet Trains; Modern Marvels: The Chrysler Building; Modern Marvels: The Overseas Highway; and segments for the Modern Marvel's: Engineering Disasters series. Nancy Oey has served as an associate producer for the award winning PBS documentaries Paul Robeson: Here I Stand for AMERICAN MASTERS and Porgy & Bess: An American Voice for the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Ms. Oey has also served as clearance supervisor for SHOWTIME'S That's Black Entertainment: A Century of Movies & Music. She is also credited on various Discovery Network programs such as, Wild Animal Rescues. Nancy Oey is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
(Last Udpated 01.23.08)
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AMANDA PAULSON .97
Christian Science Monitor
Amanda has worked for the Monitor since 2000, in a range of jobs that include both editing and writing for news and features sections. She moved to Chicago in 2003 to be the paper's Midwest correspondent, and currently covers regional news, education, cultural trends, and social and urban issues, among other topics.
(Last Udpated 02.01.05)
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JILL HUNTER PELLETTIERI .97
Managing Editor,
Slate
Jill Hunter Pellettieri is Slate's managing editor. Jill previously worked at Legal Affairs magazine in New Haven, Conn., and before that was an editor at the now-defunct Silicon Alley Reporter. A native of the Bay Area, she is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
(Last Udpated 01.12.06)
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ELLIOT OLSHANSKY .04
Web Editor, New York Daily News
Elliot Olshansky is a Web Editor at the New York Daily News, preparing selected sections of the paper for online publication along with special web-only content. Before the Daily News, Elliot was an editor and writer for CSTV.com, writing regularly on college hockey, and contributing to CSTV.com's coverage of football, basketball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, wrestling, field hockey, gymnastics and golf. Among the top events Elliot covered are the 2006 U.S. Open golf championship, the 2007 NHL Entry Draft and Virginia Tech's first athletic events following the April 16 shootings, along with NCAA championship events in men's and women's ice hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's gymnastics and baseball. He has continued his work in college sports as a contributor to US College Hockey Online. Elliot has also interned at Fox News Channel and the Institute for American Values. He lives in Westchester County, N.Y.
(Last Udpated 05.08.08)
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NICHOLAS RAY .06
Editor & Correspondent
Economic Observer
Nicholas Ray is an editor and correspondent for the Economic Observer, a Chinese newspaper based in Beijing. He studied and worked in China during his junior year at Dartmouth and moved there upon graduation. He is fluent in Chinese.
(Last Udpated 03.25.07)
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HANK ROGERSON .89
Documentary
Director, Producer, Editor
Hank is currently directing and producing a feature documentary called "Shakespeare Behind Bars," about the only all male Shakespeare company in the U.S. prison system. The film follows 20 inmates for 9 months as they rehearse and perform The Tempest. Hank has also worked as a producer, director, and editor on such projects as "HOMELAND", a documentary about four families on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, produced for PBS with funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS), the Soros Documentary Fund, and the Edgebrook Foundation; produced a pilot project for ITVS's "Electric Shadows" which is bringing independently produced, innovative, interactive projects to the web. The project, called "CIRCLE OF STORIES," brings to life the vibrant art of Native American storytelling on the worldwide web at PBS.ORG. Hank has also directed and produced on "OUR YOUTH, OUR FUTURE", about a Navajo drug and alcohol youth treatment center (Co-Producer/Director); "BLESS ME WITH A GOOD LIFE", a video about Native American elders, which won Best Short Documentary Short at the 1994 American Indian Film and Video Festival in San Francisco (Co-Producer/Director, DP); and "ROCKS WITH WINGS", a film on the Navajo Lady Chieftains basketball team in Shiprock, New Mexico (Segment Assoc. Producer, DP). He has produced for two seasons on MEDICAL DIARY for THE DISCOVERY HEALTH CHANNEL, and recently was a segment producer on a pilot called DOCTORS for Paramount Television.
(Last Udpated 02.18.05)
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JETHRO
ROTHE-KUSHEL .03
Producer, Director
Jethro is a Los Angeles based filmmaker. While at Dartmouth, Jethro created PHARAOH'S STREETS, a documentary about homelessness in downtown Los Angeles. After graduating Dartmouth with a B.A. in Religious Studies, he received a grant to create a documentary about religious rituals in Mexico. He traveled the country interviewing gurus, shamans, priests, witch-doctors and participants during such events as "Day of the Virgin Guadelupe" and "Day of the Dead." Since his return to Los Angeles, Jethro has transitioned from documentary to narrative filmmaking. As a working producer, Jethro has six 35mm feature films to his credit including Master Special Effects Creator and Director Paul Curley's (THE RING, THE FIFTH ELEMENT) science fiction thriller, STAR PARTY about a group of amateur astronomers who confront an inter-dimensional being. He served as Associate Producer on GINGERDEAD MAN, a horror-comedy about a possessed gingerbread cookie, starring Gary Busey ("I'm With Busey," POINT BREAK). As a director his pictures have screened to critical acclaim at film festivals around the world. He is currently launching a motion picture and television development company with producer John Will '99. Together they are actively seeking, reviewing, and developing film/tv material to creatively produce at the studio/network level.
(Last Udpated 05.07.05)
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KATE RYAN .00
Reporter
Crain's Chicago Business
Kate Ryan '00 is reporter at Crain's Chicago Business, where she covers investment banking, private equity, asset managers and the Chicago exchanges. Kate received a master's in journalism from Medill in 2004 after spending three years in equity capital markets at Lehman Brothers in New York. She has also worked at Bloomberg in London, where she was an intern reporter on the general assignment desk. Based in: Chicago.
(Last Udpated 03.16.05)
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JONATHAN SKURNIK .86
Producer / Director
Jonathan Skurnik has produced, directed and shot numerous award-winning documentaries and has recently completed his first two fiction films as writer/director. His three most recent documentaries include: ÒThe Elevator Operator,Ó a documentary about a Ukrainian immigrant who runs a manual elevator in Manhattan. It has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, won Best Documentary at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid and had its broadcast premiere on PBS and Ukrainian TV; the award-winning ÒSpit It OutÓ which was broadcast on PBS in 2007; and ÒA DayÕs Work, A DayÕs PayÓ which won the prestigious Harry Chapin award for films about hunger and poverty and was broadcast on PBS and in Europe in 2002. Jonathan is currently producing The Thick Dark Fog, a documentary about survivors of American Indian boarding schools; heÕs directing Ice Music, Moon Magic, a high definition documentary about a winter Ice Music festival in Norway; and heÕs directing SheÕs A Boy, a documentary about four children with gender fluidity.
(Last Udpated 11.25.07)
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JULIE SLOANE .99
Writer / Editor
Fortune Small Business magazine
Julie Sloane is a staff writer and editor at Fortune Small Business magazine, a sister publication to Fortune, in New York. She began there as an editorial assistant/reporter in 1999. She is also a contributing editor for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and writes its Classroom column.
(Last Udpated 04.12.05)
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JILANN SPITZMILLER .89
Documentary
Director, Producer, Editor
Jilann's visually rich and award-winning work includes the Native American themed documentaries, "HOMELAND", "OUR YOUTH OUR FUTURE" and "BLESS ME WITH A GOOD LIFE". She is currently co-producing the " CIRCLE OF STORIES" web site. Jilann was recently the Director of Photography on "THE SUNSET STRIP: PARADISE LOST" for A&E, and a Director and Cinematographer for the new Bravo series "THE IT FACTOR". She directed and shot two seasons on the documentary series "MEDICAL DIARY" for THE DISCOVERY HEALTH CHANNEL, which was the network's highest rated show in viewer response, and worked as a producer for the upcoming series "LIFE MOMENTS" for NBC. Her work for the INDIGO GIRLS (Co-Producer/Director/DP/Editor) is included in "WATERSHED", a one-hour biographical video released by Sony Music. She has also directed and filmed two documentaries about fine artists working in France and Italy, "THOROUGHBRED PURSUIT" and "AN AMERICAN PAINTER IN ITALY".
(Last Udpated 02.18.05)
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JACQUES STEINBERG .88
Staff Repporter,
The New York Times
Author, The Gatekeepers
Jacques is a media reporter who covers newspapaers for The New York Times and has been a staff reporter for the newspaper for more than a decade. He most recently served as a national education correspondent for the paper, from the summer fo 1999 to the spring of 2003, and, for the four years prior to that, he covered the city's public school system and its chancellor, Rudy Crew. He spent much of the 1996-1997 school year inside a third-grade classroom on West 96 Street in Manhattan, writing an occasional series about the children's efforts to learn to read. The Education Writers Association honored Mr. Steinberg's reading series with its top award, the Fred M. Mechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, in 1998. His book, The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of A Premier College, was published in 2002 and spent several weeks on The New York Times best-seller list.
(Last Udpated 03.15.05)
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ANNIE SUNDBERG .90
Documentary Producer / Writer
Annie Sundberg is a documentary and narrative filmmaker and writer. Ms. Sundberg developed and produced the independent feature film "Tully," nominated for four 2003 IFP Spirit Awards and recipient of Best Film at eleven festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Festival. Ms. Sundberg co-produced "In My Corner," a feature documentary film on the world of amateur boxing and the lives of young men who train in the South Bronx, which premiered nationally as part of PBS’ award winning P.O.V. series (1999). Her television credits include Series Producer for Hybrid Films on the first season of A&E’s “Family Plots” – a thirteen part documentary series about a family run funeral parlor. As producer and director, she helped launch the recent series “Now Who’s Boss” for New York Times Television, which premiered in February 2004 on TLC. Ms. Sundberg's producing credits also include the 1996 Academy Award and Emmy winning "One Survivor Remembers," a co-production of HBO and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the 1995 ten-part "History of American Cinema Project" for PBS. Since starting her work in film as a reader for Miramax, she has worked extensively as a freelance writer and producer. After completing a National Outdoor Leadership School semester in Kenya, Ms. Sundberg taught English language skills through the World Food Programme in Nairobi. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she earned a BA in English Literature. Rickie Stern is a documentary producer and director whose films have shown on HBO and PBS.Ms. Stern is the co-producer and director of the award winning "In My Corner," a documentary film on the world of amateur boxing and the lives of the young men who train in the South Bronx. The film was nationally broadcast as part of PBS' award winning documentary series P.O.V. (Point of View), and is the winner of four honors, including a Golden Apple Award from the National Education Media Network. Ms. Stern also produced and directed the EMMY nominated PBS documentary "Neglect Not The Children," featuring a Harlem-based youth program and host Morgan Freeman. Ms. Stern is the co-author of a three-book series for children entitled Beryl E. Bean: Mighty Adventurer of the Planet, published by HarperCollins. She graduated with a BA from Dartmouth College.
(Last Udpated 07.20.05)
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JESSE SWEET .98
Documentary Filmmaker
Jesse Sweet is a documentary filmmaker in New York City. Most recently he directed and produced the first hour of the 4-part PBS documentary "African American Lives." The series is hosted by Harvard academic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Using breakthroughs in genealogical research and genetic testing, "African American Lives" traces the family trees of eight African Americans and Dr. Gates back through United States history and across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa. The series guests are Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Chris Tucker, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, Dr. Ben Carson and Whoopi Goldberg. Jesse Sweet has also produced hour-long documentaries on authors Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy for A&E and a two-hour documentary on Texas for The History Channel. Previously, Jesse has worked as a field producer and/or associate producer on a wide-range of documentaries including PBS' American Masters: Clint Eastwood Out of the Shadows, HBO's The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman, ABC's Peter Jennings Reporting: Beyond Conspiracy - 40th Anniversary of the Kennedy Assasination, and HBO's Autopsy.
(Last Udpated 01.04.06)
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JAKE TAPPER .91
Correspondent
ABC News
Jake Tapper is an ABCNEWS correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau, regularly appearing on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and Nightline. Before ABC, Tapper was the national correspondent for Salon.com and a columnist for TALK Magazine. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post, hosted The Sundance Channel's 24 Frame News in 2003, was a correspondent for VH1 news specials in 2002, and the anchor of CNN's Take Five throughout 2001. The author of Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, and Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story. Tapper began his journalism career as a senior writer for Washington City Paper. His political comic strip, "Capitol Hell" appeared in Roll Call from 1994 until 2003.
(Last Udpated 03.09.05)
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DAX TEJERA .07
Research Producer, NBC News
Dax Tejera is an NBC News research producer based in the network's Los Angeles bureau. In that capacity, his primary responsibility includes breaking news coverage and feature story development for NBC Nightly News, the TODAY Show, and MSNBC. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2008, Tejera worked at NBC News World Headquarters in New York. Selected his senior year as one of six members of the network's News Associates program, his career in television began at Dateline NBC and continued at the TODAY show and the network desk, where he was part of NBC's Decision 2008 coverage - including the 2007 Democratic Debate at Dartmouth. As an undergraduate at the College, Tejera served as Publisher of The Dartmouth after three years of reporting on governance, faculty, and alumni relations
(Last Udpated 05.28.08)
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TODAY Show
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BETSY TIMBERS .01
Scriptwriter / Associate Producer
Northern Light Productions
Betsy works as a scriptwriter and associate producer at Northern Light Productions in Boston. She is currently working as the associate producer on a feature length documentary on journalists in the Vietnam War. She has worked on several short documentaries including a National Archives tribute to David McCullough and an orientation film for Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, NC. Before Northern Light, Betsy spent two years in Ireland making a documentary film on the role of women in the Northern Ireland peace process. She interned for filmmakers Ken Burns and Connie Field while at Dartmouth.
(Last Udpated 03.04.05)
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JESSICA VAN GARSSE .04
Associate Producer
CBS News
An Associate Producer based in New York City, Jessica covers health and medical stories for the CBS Evening News. Prior to her current work, she was an Associate Producer for the CBS newsmagazine "48 Hours". After graduating from Dartmouth in 04 with a double major in Psychology and Film/TV production, Jessica worked in the medical field for a time before first joining CBS as a page, during which time she worked on such broadcasts as "60 Minutes", "The Early Show", and "Sunday Morning". During her undergrad years, Jessica interned for Miramax both in New York and Los Angeles, completed a number of student films, worked as a Production Assistant for the Dartmouth Media Production Group, and did a great deal of work in hospital and other clinical settings.
(Last Udpated 11.25.07)
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ANN VARNEY .86
Producer, ABC 20/20
Ann has been working at ABC-TV for 17 years, starting off as a production associate at Good Morning America (GMA). After 9 years at GMA, she left to produce for Good Morning America Sunday. And when that show folded, she was hired as a producer at 20/20 where she's been working for the past 6 years.
(Last Udpated 03.11.05)
ABC 20/20
PAMELA MASON
WAGNER .81
Documentary Filmmaker
Pamela Mason Wagner is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker in New York City, whose previous work with Faith & Values Media includes an acclaimed docudrama about St. Francis, the "Reluctant Saint." In 2001 she won the primetime Emmy Award for Best Informational Series for her program in the American Masters series: "Finding Lucy". The 90-minute PBS documentary about Lucille Ball garnered critical praise as well as popular acclaim and high ratings. Much of Ms. Wagner's work has been with journalist Bill Moyers. Their most recent collaboration was "The Mythology of Star Wars" with George Lucas and Bill Moyers. Previous Moyers credits include "Changing Lives", a 90 minute film in the 5 part series Moyers on "Addiction: Close To Home", and "Healing and the Mind" with Bill Moyers, the five part series which won the primetime Emmy Award for Best Informational Series, along with the American Television Award. She also directed, wrote and produced the five part series "The Wisdom of Faith" with Huston Smith which garnered a Bronze Plaque, The Wilbur Award, and an Emmy nomination. In addition to her work for PBS, she has produced prime time specials for ABC, CBS, and NBC. Additional cable credits include producing and directing for Science Times/National Geographic Channel, a production of New York Times Television, and producing and directing a biography on Marlon Brando which aired on MSNBC. The films she has been associated with have won numerous prizes including Emmy Awards, the American Television Award, the Ohio State Journalism Award, Columbus International Film and Video Bronze Placque, The Wilbur Award, CINE Golden Eagles, American Film Festival Red Ribbons, National Educational Film Festival Silver and Bronze Apples. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Ms. Wagner guest lectures and serves on the advisory board for Dartmouth College's Film Studies Department. She is a member of the Director's Guild of America, the Association for Independent Video and Filmmakers, Docuclub, and New York Women in Film and Television. She is now working on "Joan of Arc."
(Last Udpated 02.08.05)
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HOWARD WEINBERG .69
Documentary Filmmkaer
Priority Productions
Howard Weinberg is an award-winning independent documentary film and television producer who has created significant public and commercial television programming. His innovative reporting and imaginative producing have contributed to the successes of major figures in American journalism: Bill Moyers, Studs Terkel, Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, Hodding Carter, Charles Kuralt and Harry Reasoner. Founding Producer of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report that began as The Robert MacNeil Report and made nightly news analysis a staple of public television; Executive Producer of The Dick Cavett Show — the premiere talk show of PBS; Creator and Producer of Assignment America with Studs Terkel; Senior Producer of Inside Story with Hodding Carter; and Executive Producer of Listening to America with Bill Moyers — a 27-part election year series called "one of the high watermarks of televised politics", Weinberg has earned a reputation for producing quality television and the recognition of his peers. Weinberg has been honored with Emmy, Peabody, DuPont and Polk awards for his work.
(Last Udpated 02.01.05)
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PETER WERNER.68
Director
Documentary: Frances Flaherty: Hidden and Seeking. Film: No Man's Land, Don't Cry, It's only Thunder, In the Region of Ice ( ACADEMY AWARD.) TV: Moonlighting, Almost Golden, Hiroshima, We Were the Mulvaneys, Momma Flora's Family, The Seventies, Gracie's Choice, Mom at 16, Nash Bridges.
(Last Udpated 09.26.05)
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