Howard
Weinberg
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New York, NY 10025
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Develops innovative program formats that become models for
industry, takes ideas from concept to completion. · Manages creative
staff and technical production, delivers high-quality programs under
tight budgets and deadlines. · Special skills in talent development,
public policy issues, anticipating audience tastes. · Extensive
experience in broadcast, cable and non-broadcast television.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRODUCING, WRITING &
PROGRAM DESIGN
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, Founding
Producer, 200+ programs
Created original program format for The Robert MacNeil Report that became
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report. Created viewer-friendly storytelling approaches
to provide clearer in-depth news analysis. Supervised reporters. Produced
original documentaries. Won Emmy, Peabody and duPont Awards.
Bill Moyers
Listening to America, Executive Producer,
27 hours - Earned critical acclaim for elevating "dialogue of democracy"
during 1992 election year.
Sports For Sale, Producer-writer-director,
3-hour PBS event that included 90-minute documentary, live discussion
and call-in program.
Bill Moyers' Journal, Producer, documentaries:
What's a Party For? (two-party system), Within Our Power
(energy conservation), The Oregon Attitude (environmental awareness),
This Neighborhood is Obsolete (urban decay).
CBS News
Sunday Morning, Producer, 100+ segments
Profiled creative artists: David Hockney, Yo Yo Ma, Charles Dutoit,
Leontyne Price, Dizzy Gillespie, Willem de Kooning et al. Produced topical
Sunday Morning Cover Stories in 10 days.
Sixty Minutes, Producer for Harry Reasoner
Produced stories on airline pilots' retirement age, campaign finance
reform, environmental activists Amory & Hunter Lovins and maternity
leave laws.
Assignment America, Producer for Studs
Terkel
Created show concept: documentary profiles of people connected to topics
of national importance.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT &
SCRIPT CONSULTING
The Dick Cavett Show, Executive Producer
Created "big show" network-look within tight PBS budget; reduced
costs through innovative resource management; successfully marketed
program, sold it for another season to PBS stations.
Project Literacy U.S., Producer-writer,
three national PBS documentaries
Revamped program concept, made host-narrator integral to story, not
simply an add-on celebrity. Convinced high-profile actors to host documentaries
- Pat Morita on mentoring, One Plus One; Phylicia Rashad on children's
literacy, First Things First.
Hoop Dreams, Script Doctor
Reshaped four-hour rough-cut, gave director Steve James six pages of
detailed notes on how to clarify story line, tighten structure of what
became an award-winning theatrical documentary.
Scoundrels! Scalawags! & Saviors! -- The Good Old Days
at New York's City Hall, Producer-Director
Edited WABC-TV Eyewitness News correspondent Milton Lewis' script into
10-part Emmy Award-winning series; updated, re-edited as documentary.
Created ground-breaking technique, replaced "stand-ups" with
on-camera action-narratives: had Lewis ride in hansom cab, open top
hat at City Hall, bring flowers to Boss Tweed's grave, etc.
net.LEARNING, Executive Producer, Producer-Writer
Revised concept, improved proposal, reported new stories and submitted
rewritten document to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to receive $1.l million
to produce two-hour PBS documentary about online college education.
NEW TALENT DEVELOPMENT
& JOURNALISM EDUCATION
Inside Story with Hodding Carter, Senior
Producer
Trained respected print-journalist and State Department spokesman to
become on-air TV talent. Supervised staff, post-production, for 8 programs
of pilot series. Series ran for 8 years.
WABC-TV Eyewitness News, Discovered
Rose Ann Scamardella
Responded to concerns for newsroom diversity and News Director's complaints
that he couldn't find an Italian-American correspondent; found Rose
Ann, personnel director of shipping company; coached her, worked with
her. She became news anchor and so famous that Gilda Radnor parodied
her as "Rose Ann Roseannadanna" on Saturday Night Live.
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Forums, Producer-Writer-Director
Improved presentation, re-launched series of seminars produced as high-quality,
cutting-edge issue TV programs distributed by PBS for broadcast, classroom
use including Journalists, Lawyers & Public Officials: Overcoming
Public Mistrust; Money, Humor & Spin In Election 2000; Journalists
In A Time Of Crisis: Watchdogs Or Lapdogs?
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Adjunct Professor
Taught "Introduction to Broadcast" to 2-Year degree students,
Fall 1997; "Producing Television Newsmagazine Stories" to
School of International & Public Affairs students, Fall 1993. Used
functional context approach to "immerse" students and stimulate
learning.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2002 - 1993 Priority Productions, Inc.
1993 - 1990 Public Affairs Television, Inc.
1989 - 1987 Freelance Producer
1987 - 1980 CBS News
1980 - 1973 Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Inc.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
& EDUCATION
Writers' Guild Of America, East; National Academy Of Television Arts
& Sciences;
The New York Film/Video Council, President, 1999-2001, Board of Directors,
1997-99, 2001-03
Dartmouth College - A.B., Government, 1962; Columbia University - M.S.,
Journalism, 1965
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