Tom Jennings has been producing for FRONTLINE since 2009, when he first collaborated with the investigative news group ProPublica. His resulting film, Law and Disorder, about police shootings of civilians during the week after Katrina, won the prestigious George Polk Award for television reporting and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Jennings subsequently produced Doctor Hotspot(2012) and Being Mortal (2015) with New Yorker writer Atul Gawande and the Emmy-nominatedA Perfect Terrorist (2011), and its sequel American Terrorist (2015) again with ProPublica. He was a producer for Rain Media on the 2012 landmark economy miniseries, Money, Power & Wall Street, which also won a George Polk Award.

Jennings has also won two national Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and three Writers Guild of America Awards.

Jennings also teaches documentary writing and development at NYU's Tisch School.