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Sandra King
Executive Producer
Sandra
King has been producing and directing award-winning
documentaries, news and public affairs
programs - first for WNET/13, later for
New Jersey Network - for more than 25 years.
Generally focused on issues of race, class
and justice, her Emmy-nominated documentaries,
aired on PBS stations across the country,
include Newark: The Slow Road Back, Prophet!,
The Writing on the Wall, This Little Light and Newark Boys Chorus: ROOTS.
She
had covered courts and legal issues for
most of her long news career, before launching
NJN’s Due Process.
A
1998-99 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University,
her awards include the American Film Institute’s
Bennett Award for Best Locally Produced Documentary,
the National Headliner Award, The American
Women in Radio and TV’s Pinnacle Award,
the Leigh Whipper Gold Award from the Philadelphia
International Film Festival, the CPB’s
Silver Medal, several Cine Golden Eagles,
and honors at the Chicago, Athens and Houston
Film Festivals. She has also garnered 8 local
Emmy Awards and more than 60 nominations.
In
addition to her work for public television,
King has lectured extensively on journalism
and public policy and for 15 years taught
TV journalism at Rutgers University in Newark.
She also taught Writing and Documentary at
Harvard following her stint as a Nieman fellow – the
only New Jersey receipient of academia’s
highest journalistic honor.
Among
her numerous honors, King has been named
Rutgers-Newark Alumna of the Year, North
Jersey Press Club Media Woman of the Year
and NJ Citizen Action’s Media
Person of the Year.
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