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.