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 Janice Selinger
Executive Producer
Award-winning producer Janice Selinger is deputy executive
director for production at NJN Public Television and
supervises the creation and production of local and original
shows. She also is executive producer in charge of development
and production of national and local documentaries for
NJN. Her major projects include Domestic Violence:
Faces of Fear; Battered Wives, Shattered
Lives; Throwaway Pets;Mission from
theHeart; Alice Paul: Crusader for
Equality; and Reliving the Lindbergh Case, all
of which have aired nationally on PBS. Selinger served
as co-executive producer for NJN's first international
co-production, Speak of Me As I Am, a documentary
that examined the life and times of Paul Robeson and
was co-production with the BBC and NVC Arts.
Reliving the Lindbergh Case received a
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award in 1989. Battered
Wives: Shattered Lives garnered
the 1985 National Headliner Award for Outstanding Public
Service by a Television Network. Selinger has received
awards from the Associated Press, Sigma Delta Chi, and
New Jersey Bar Association. Selinger has won numerous
awards, including eleven regional Emmy awards, a 1986
National Headliner Award, a 1989 Corporation for Public
Broadcasting Silver Award, the 1987 Vanguard Award and
a National Commendation Award from American Women in
Radio and Television. Selinger won a Gracie Award for
New Media for the web site outreach and documentary Seeking
Solutions, a program that examined innovative
programs aimed at stemming violence in our schools.
Prior to joining NJN in 1979, Selinger was on the staff
of WCBS-TV in New York where she was associate producer
for the Emmy Award-winning consumer affairs show, On
Your Side with John Stossel, and the documentary
series, Channel 2-Eye On.
A native of
East Brunswick, NJ, Selinger holds a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from Penn State University and a
master’s in public administration from Rutgers
University. She teaches in the Communication Studies
Department at the College of New Jersey, formerly Trenton
State College.
Selinger is the national secretary of the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences. She serves on National
Scholarship Committee of the National Television Academy
and serves as the trustee for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter.
She currently
lives in Yardley, Pa. with her husband and two children.
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