Curriculum Vitae 2004
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Howard Weinberg
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system), Within Our Power (energy conservation), The Oregon Attitude (environmental awareness), This Neighborhood is Obsolete (urban decay).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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