GBH is celebrating FRONTLINE’s 40th Anniversary this year and we’re excited to have FRONTLINE’s editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath as our special guest expert. She will talk about the last four decades of the award-winning series and how it has impacted journalism and continues to be the gold standard in investigative reporting. When you register, please submit your questions for Raney as we will be answering presubmitted questions.
FRONTLINE has won every major award in broadcast journalism under Aronson-Rath’s leadership, including Emmy Awards, the first Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Gold Baton to be awarded in a decade, and the series’ first-ever Peabody Institutional Award. Aronson-Rath has also expanded FRONTLINE’s theatrical documentary footprint, with the series earning its first-ever Academy Award nomination for Abacus: Small Enough to Jail in 2018 and its second in 2020 for the film For Sama.
GBH’s new President and CEO Susan Goldberg moderates this special Women’s History Month event. Join us as they reflect on women’s leadership in media, answer your questions and more.
Raney Aronson-Rath has guided FRONTLINE’s coverage through some of the most crucial events in recent history, from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, to a multiplatform project examining a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings, to the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic and more. She oversees FRONTLINE’s acclaimed investigative reporting on air and online and directs the series’ editorial vision — executive producing more than 20 in-depth documentaries each year on critical issues facing the country and the world. She joined FRONTLINE’s staff as senior producer in 2007, was named deputy executive producer by the series’ founder David Fanning in 2012 and became executive producer in 2015.
Before FRONTLINE, Aronson-Rath worked at ABC News and The Wall Street Journal. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and her master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School.
Susan Goldberg is GBH’s President and CEO A nationally recognized journalist and leader, Goldberg has transformed media organizations, taking brands from reverence to relevance by diversifying staff, expanding coverage and executing multiplatform transformation. She was named Editor in Chief of National Geographic in 2014 and Editorial Director of National Geographic Partners in 2015. As Editorial Director, she led all journalism across platforms, including digital journalism, magazines, podcasts, maps, newsletters and social media. Under her leadership, National Geographic has been honored with many awards and honors. Goldberg joined GBH in December 2022 from Arizona State University where she served as a vice dean and professor of practice, with a joint appointment to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the College of Global Futures. Prior to that she was executive editor for federal, state and local government coverage for Bloomberg News in Washington from 2010 to 2014. From 2007 to 2010, she was editor of The Plain Dealer. From 2003-2007, she was the executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News and served as the paper’s managing editor from 1999-2003. From 1989 to 1999, Goldberg worked at USA Today, including stints as a deputy managing editor of the News, Life and Enterprise sections. Previously, she worked as a reporter and editor at the Detroit Free Press. She began her career as a reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Please note that only pre-submitted questions will be answered during this event so be sure to submit your question during registration.
This virtual event will begin at 12pm Eastern Time.
How it works:
Register for this virtual Ask The Expert event. We will email you the link to this virtual event once you have registered. GBH will be using Zoom Webinar for this event. Zoom is free to the public but will require a computer download. You can download Zoom here. If you already have Zoom you will not need to download the platform again.
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