Raney Aronson-Rath

Raney Aronson-Rath produces Frontline, PBS's flagship investigative journalism series. She has been internationally recognized for her work to expand the PBS series' original investigative journalism[1] and directs the editorial development and execution of the series. Aronson-Rath joined Frontline in 2007 as a senior producer. She was named deputy executive producer by David Fanning, the series’ founder, in 2012, and then became executive producer in 2015.[2]

Raney Aronson-Rath
Aronson-Rath at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards
OccupationFilmmaker
TitleExecutive Producer, Frontline
Spouse(s)Arun Rath

Education

Aronson-Rath earned a bachelor's degree in South Asian studies and history from the University of Wisconsin. She received her master's from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[3]

Career

Early in her professional life, Aronson-Rath worked for a small, English-language daily newspaper The China Post in Taipei, Taiwan where she decided to commit to a career in journalism.[4] Before joining Frontline in 2007, Aronson-Rath developed and managed more than a dozen journalistic partnerships with news outlets including ProPublica, PBS Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, The New York Times, CBC Television and Univision.[5]

Before helping to manage the series, Aronson-Rath produced, directed and wrote several award-winning Frontline films, including News War, The Last Abortion Clinic and The Jesus Factor. Prior to joining Frontline, she worked on award-winning series at ABC News, The Wall Street Journal and MSNBC. In 2012, Aronson-Rath was named Deputy Editor of Frontline by David Fanning and Executive Producer in 2015 the position she holds today.[6] She has earned new funding to expand Frontline’s investigative capacity, including the launch of a YouTube channel with original content, a commitment to interactive projects[7] as well as a film initiative focused on accountability for institutions and public officials called the Transparency Project.[8]

Aronson-Rath currently serves on the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy, the Board of Visitors for Columbia University’s Journalism school, and the Advisory Board of Columbia Global Reports.[9]

Awards and honors

Aronson-Rath was a 2014-2015 Fellow at the MIT Open Doc Lab.[10] Aronson-Rath has been a speaker at the Skoll World Forum,[11] the Aspens Ideas Summit,[12] The National Scholastic Press Association's High School Journalism Convention, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and The Power of Narrative Journalism Conference.[13]

Since 2015, Frontline has won many accolades under her direction, including The Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award, IRE Awards, The George Foster Peabody Award,[14] Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award,[15] The Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award, The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, The Overseas Press Club Awards, The Scripps Howard Award,[16] and Writer’s Guild Awards,[17] and the 2019 dupont-Columbia Gold Baton award,[18] among others.

References
  1. "FRONTLINE".
  2. "'Frontline' Getting a Change in Leadership". The New York Times. 14 May 2015.
  3. "Frontline Welcomes New Class to Frontline Columbia School of Journalism Fellows".
  4. April Simpson (May 30, 2017). "Raney Aronson-Rath: It's in my DNA to get to the Nuanced Truth".
  5. "'Frontline' Getting a Change in Leadership". The New York Times. May 13, 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  6. Mike Kiniry (March 14, 2018). "Frontline Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath".
  7. "PBS Official Frontline Youtube Channel".
  8. "About Frontline's Transparency Project".
  9. "Columbia Global Reports Advisory Board".
  10. "Virtual Reality Meets Documentary". 2016-05-13.
  11. "Raney Aronson-Rath Biography".
  12. "Raney Aronson-Rath Speaker Bio".
  13. "About the Power of Narrative".
  14. "FRONTLINE: United States of Secrets".
  15. Lyn Trahn (May 1, 2016). "Peabody Awards and Facebook Launch New Futures of Media Award".
  16. Valerie Miller (2016-03-08). "2015 Scripps Howard Winners Announced".
  17. Gregg Mitchell. "2017 Writers Guild Awards Winners Announced".
  18. "Winners of the 2019 dupont-Columbia Awards".
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