NJN - New Jersey Public Television and Radio

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.