Raney Aronson-Rath

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Raney Aronson-Rath
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Aronson-Rath in 2025
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin (B A., 1992) [1]
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.A.)
Occupation Filmmaker
TitleExecutive Producer, Frontline
Spouse Arun 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 [2] 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. [3]

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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. [4]

Career

Early in her professional life, Aronson-Rath worked in Taipei, Taiwan, for a small, English-language daily newspaper, The China Post , where she decided to commit to a career in journalism. [5] Later, Aronson-Rath developed and managed more than a dozen journalistic partnerships with news outlets, including ProPublica, Marketplace , PBS NewsHour , The New York Times , CBC Television, and Univision. [6]

Moving to TV news production, Aronson-Rath worked on award-winning series at ABC News, The Wall Street Journal , and MSNBC. She also produced, directed, and wrote several award-winning Frontline films, including News War, The Last Abortion Clinic, and The Jesus Factor.

Aronson-Rath officially joined Frontline in 2007. In 2012, she was named Deputy Editor of Frontline by David Fanning, and Executive Producer in 2015, the position she holds today. [7] 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, [8] as well as a film initiative focused on accountability for institutions and public officials called the Transparency Project. [9]

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. [10]

She has received numerous accolades for producing the documentary feature film 20 Days in Mariupol , which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival [11] and won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the 96th Academy Awards. [12] At Sundance, the film won the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition. [13] [14] [15] It was also selected as the Ukrainian submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, but was not ultimately nominated in this category. [16] [17]

Awards and honors

Aronson-Rath was a 2014-2015 Fellow at the MIT Open Doc Lab. [18] Aronson-Rath has been a speaker at the Skoll World Forum, [19] the Aspens Ideas Summit, [20] The National Scholastic Press Association's High School Journalism Convention, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and The Power of Narrative Journalism Conference. [21]

Since 2015, Frontline has won many accolades under her direction, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, [22] The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, IRE Awards, The George Foster Peabody Award, [23] Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award, [24] 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, [25] and Writer's Guild Awards, [26] and the 2019 dupont-Columbia Gold Baton award, [27] among others.

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References

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  2. ↑ "FRONTLINE". PBS .
  3. ↑ "'Frontline' Getting a Change in Leadership". The New York Times. 14 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Frontline Welcomes New Class to Frontline Columbia School of Journalism Fellows".
  5. ↑ April Simpson (May 30, 2017). "Raney Aronson-Rath: It's in my DNA to get to the Nuanced Truth".
  6. ↑ "'Frontline' Getting a Change in Leadership". The New York Times. May 13, 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  7. ↑ Mike Kiniry (March 14, 2018). "Frontline Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath".
  8. ↑ "PBS Official Frontline Youtube Channel". YouTube .
  9. ↑ "About Frontline's Transparency Project". PBS .
  10. ↑ "Columbia Global Reports Advisory Board".
  11. ↑ "Program Guide — 20 Days in Mariupol". Sundance Film Festival. Archived from the original on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  12. ↑ Bergeson, Samantha (2023-12-21). "2024 Oscar Shortlists Unveiled: 'Barbie,' 'Poor Things,' 'Maestro,' and 'The Zone of Interest' Make the Cut". IndieWire. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  13. ↑ Galuppo, Mia (27 January 2023). "Sundance: 'A Thousand and One,' Nikki Giovanni Doc Take Top Jury Prizes". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  14. ↑ Goodman, Stephanie (27 January 2023). "'A Thousand and One' and Nikki Giovanni Documentary Win at Sundance Film Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  15. ↑ Husted, Anne (13 February 2023). "FRONTLINE, AP documentary '20 Days in Mariupol' wins Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Audience Award - FRONTLINE". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  16. ↑ "Five Ukrainian films included in 2024 Oscars eligibility lists – photo". Ukrainska Pravda. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
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  18. ↑ "Virtual Reality Meets Documentary". 2016-05-13.
  19. ↑ "Raney Aronson-Rath Biography".
  20. ↑ "Raney Aronson-Rath Speaker Bio".
  21. ↑ "About the Power of Narrative".
  22. ↑ "The 96th Academy Awards | 2024". 23 January 2024.
  23. ↑ "FRONTLINE: United States of Secrets".
  24. ↑ Lyn Trahn (May 1, 2016). "Peabody Awards and Facebook Launch New Futures of Media Award".
  25. ↑ Valerie Miller (2016-03-08). "2015 Scripps Howard Winners Announced".
  26. ↑ Gregg Mitchell. "2017 Writers Guild Awards Winners Announced".
  27. ↑ "Winners of the 2019 dupont-Columbia Awards".
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