Tom Jennings

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.

'I Want to Live Like a Human Being': Where New York Fails Its Mentally Ill
December 6, 2018
1:23:48
American Terrorist
April 21, 2015
54:11
Being Mortal
February 10, 2015
53:40
A Perfect Terrorist
November 22, 2011
13:01
Doctor Hotspot
July 26, 2011
Trial Testimony Reveals Mindset of Confessed Mumbai Terrorist
June 6, 2011
Confessed American Terrorist Details Plans for Chilling Plot
May 24, 2011
David Coleman Headley: The Perfect Terrorist?
May 22, 2011
56:05
Law & Disorder
August 25, 2010
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