producers Raney Aronson-Rath

As senior producer for PBS's flagship public affairs documentary series FRONTLINE, Raney Aronson-Rath guides the editorial development and execution of the series' primetime television broadcasts. With Executive Producer David Fanning, she oversees all phases of film production, from story development and assignment through final edit and post-production. Aronson-Rath is also instrumental in the daily editorial management of the series' nonbroadcast initiatives, including new media projects, audience engagement, educational outreach and promotion.

Since joining FRONTLINE's staff in 2007, Aronson-Rath has supervised a number of FRONTLINE productions, including Rules of Engagement, which was nominated for an Emmy, and films on domestic health care reform, America's debt crisis and international bribery. Her commitment to exploring how the Web and user-generated content can be used in the creation of public media led to the development of Digital Nation, a year-long multiplatform initiative set to air in winter 2010.

Prior to joining the series as senior producer, Aronson-Rath produced, directed and wrote six FRONTLINE films -- News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin; The Last Abortion Clinic; The Soldier's Heart; The Jesus Factor; and The Alternative Fix -- as well as three FRONTLINE/World stories based in India and Hong Kong. Her FRONTLINE/World story on AIDS among India's sex workers won an Overseas Press Club Award.

Before her work with FRONTLINE, Aronson-Rath worked on a number of award-winning series at ABC News, including Hopkins 24/7, which won the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton. She was coordinating producer on the award-winning ABC primetime series Boston 24/7 and a field producer on several award-winning specials from the Peter Jennings Reporting unit. Aronson-Rath also lived and worked as a newspaper reporter for The China Post in Taipei, Taiwan, for two years.

Aronson-Rath was the 2005 inaugural recipient of the Peter S. McGhee Fellowship from WGBH. She has also been awarded the Kaiser Family Foundation's Media Fellowship, a Sundance Documentary Fund grant, a New York State Council on the Arts grant and an International Reporting Project Fellowship.

Aronson-Rath has a bachelor's degree in South Asian studies and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent her junior year living in Benaras, India. She received her master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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