Tag: Frontline
“If you can’t make it important, it’s probably not worth doing”
In an extended interview with Current, Frontline creator David Fanning recalls how he came to work at Boston’s WGBH more than three decades ago, ...PBS acquires new British drama to anchor Sunday nights
Aiming to build on its successful strategy to boost viewing on Sunday nights, PBS acquired a new hit drama from the BBC, Last ...Scarce funding limits public media’s response to gun debate
The mass shootings last year in Colorado, Wisconsin and Connecticut reawakened Americans to recurring tragedies of gun violence and rekindled a national ...PBS programs capture three WGAW Awards
The Writers Guild of America, West’s prize in the children’s–episodic and specials category went to Christine Ferraro for writing Sesame Street’s “The Good Sport.” ...Frontline, California Watch cited for outstanding journalism
The Polk Award for documentary television reporting was presented to Frontline correspondent Martin Smith and producer Michael Kirk for the four-part investigative series ...Portrait of a ‘Kind Hearted Woman’ as she finds her voice
Kind-Hearted Woman, David Sutherland's latest documentary series for Frontline is a five-hour story of abuse and triumph for a Native American woman. His meticulous techniques ...Michael Sullivan, Frontline producer since 1987, departs icon investigative series
Michael Sullivan, a television producer whose name has run near the top of credit rolls of Frontline almost continuously since 1987, has exited the ...NPR, Frontline cited for 2013 duPont-Columbia Awards
Public media outlets were cited for six 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, announced today by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. NPR ...Frontline, Marketplace take on campaign financing with pre-election programming slate
Big Money 2012 is an ongoing cross-pollination between PBS's Frontline and American Public Media's Marketplace that works to incorporate traditional news documentaries with online ...POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...Aronson promoted at Frontline, NPR Board elections, Lapin joins Current, and more…
The promotion, announced during the Television Critics Association Press Tour last month, was widely reported as an indication that Aronson will succeed ...NewsHour picks up Bellantoni, WBEZ personnel changes, and more…
Bellantoni to oversee all <em>NewsHour</em> political coverage PBS NewsHour has a new political editor as of Jan. 2. Christina Bellantoni of CQ Roll Call oversees the ...Fanning quotes Friendly: public TV’s greatest right is to ‘rock the boat’ with journalism
In 2011, as partisan critics attacked NPR, Frontline chief David Fanning urged public media to specialize in strong journalism. Fanning, who was accepting ...Frontline’s producer on pledge shows and online ads
... This is our deepest embarrassment as public broadcasters. I have heard the arguments, and I understand the imperatives, but to think ...Ralph Lowell Medal and others, May 2010
The primary figures in the histories of the PBS series Frontline and Sesame Street were saluted by PBS CPB Ralph Lowell Medal: Frontline auteur David Fanning received ...
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