David Iverson
David Iverson has been an executive producer and anchor of national, regional and local specials for public broadcasting for nearly 30 years. In 2006 he produced and hosted a national special for PBS called Kids and Divorce: For Better or Worse and in 2005 he hosted the national follow-up to The American Experience episode Two Days in October. He was the writer, narrator, co-producer and executive producer of the 1999 national Emmy award winning PBS documentary The 30 Second Candidate. In all, he has written and supervised production of over 25 documentaries for national prime time broadcast on PBS. Iverson also hosts the Friday edition of Forum on KQED public radio in San Francisco and the FAQ series for KQED television.

From 2000 through 2004, Iverson was the executive director of Best Practices in Journalism, a nationwide initiative based at Wisconsin Public Television designed to encourage improved local coverage of politics and supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. During that time, the Best Practices project sponsored over 30 election coverage projects around the country and conducted more than 20 national workshops for broadcast journalists

In Wisconsin, where he was based for over 20 years, Iverson hosted weekly programs and specials for the Wisconsin Public Television network, including the Midwest Emmy award winning WeekEnd program. He also co-founded and hosted the We the People-Wisconsin public affairs series, a collaborative effort between public television, public radio, WISC-TV (a CBS affiliate), Wood Communications Group and the Wisconsin State Journal.

Iverson's awards include a national Emmy Award, the Alfred I. dupont Columbia Award, the Gabriel Award, the New York Film Festival Gold and Silver Awards, the Chicago Film Festival Gold Hugo, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award, and the Ohio State award. Regional awards include four Midwest Emmy awards, as well as over 50 Milwaukee Press Club, Northwest Broadcast News Association and Wisconsin Broadcast Association awards.

Iverson has done consulting for public television and radio stations around the country as well as the MacArthur Foundation. He’s also served on advisory panels for PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, MacNeil-Lehrer Productions and the Independent Television Service. He has lectured widely about American politics and journalism including recent presentations in Oslo and Vienna.

Iverson is a graduate of Stanford University and received his MS in Telecommunications from Indiana University.

Michael Schwarz
Michael Schwarz founded Kikim Media (www.kikim.com) in 1996 after working 20 years in public television, first as an independent producer and then as part of the senior management team at PBS station KQED/San Francisco. Schwarz’s work has been honored with three national Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for Investigative Journalism, several Ciné Golden Eagles, and numerous local Emmys. This is Schwarz’s fourth program for FRONTLINE. His previous efforts include Abortion Clinic (1983), Living Below the Line (1984), and You are in the Computer (1985). Schwarz’ most recent nationally broadcast primetime PBS program was Ending Aids: The Search For A Vaccine (2005/2006). He also produced and directed Muhammad: Legacy Of A Prophet, which premiered on PBS in December 2002. Schwarz’s program on fractal geometry will be broadcast by NOVA in the fall of 2008 and his two-hour adaptation of Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, The Botany of Desire, will be shown as a PBS special in early 2009. In addition to his work for public television, Schwarz has also produced and directed special features for all of HBO’s DVD releases of Deadwood and has recently been commissioned by the Skoll Foundation to do profiles of several social entrepreneurs.