Bob Szuter
Co-Producer/Editor

Bob Szuter works on a variety of long-format NJN productions in the roles of writer, editor, and producer. Most of these projects focus on New Jersey’s history and environmental issues. For Turning the Tide, Szuter co-produced the show with producer-writer Lynn Kosek Walker, and directed the field shooting in and around the wetlands of the Hackensack Meadowlands and the Hamilton-Trenton Marsh. Szuter’s previous effort, The Highlands Rediscovered, was a thirty-minute high definition documentary exploring the relationship between urban water supply and forestland, using New Jersey’s Highlands -- a region historically known as the “backyard” to the most densely-populated area in the nation – as its visual case study. He also wrote the script for the thirty-minute high definition production, Thunderbolts of Millville, which tells the story of how an army air force training base changed a small south Jersey town during World War II. Both programs were later distributed to public television stations across the country through American Public Television. Another was NJN’s first high-definition program, Touring New Jersey: A Pleasant Land To See, which Szuter co-edited; it was nominated in 2002 for a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Best Entertainment Program.

Bob Szuter has been working in film and video production at NJN since 1987, first as an associate producer, sound recordist, and editor, and more recently as a writer and producer, all on a variety of topics and in many formats. He attended Brown University, majoring in both American History and Semiotics (now Media/Communications). In 1999, Szuter received the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement as a Writer in the Programming category. In July 2001, he was one of twenty producers across the country chosen to attend the first annual PBS Producers Academy Workshop at WGBH, an eight day intensive workshop with some of the leading figures in all aspects of production for PBS.