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CHICAGO MATTERS: Education Matters
Independent Producers
who Contributed to Chicago Matters
Dan
Collison
Dan Collison is a regular contributor to This
American Life and NPR's All Things Considered. His This
American Life documentary Scenes from a Transplant received
a prestigious duPont-Columbia Award. The film version of Scenes from
a Transplant aired on HBO.
Collison's television
documentary Starting Over, which follows a former death row inmate's
reintroduction to the free world after 38 years in prison, was broadcast
on ABC's Nightline.
Other Chicago
Matters documentaries produced by Collison include Life
on the Outside and A
Danger to Themselves or Others.
Sylvia
Ewing
Sylvia Ewing has produced the Chicago Matters Town Hall Meetings
since 1999 and served as a correspondent for Chicago Matters: Seeking
Justice and other series since 1992.
Sylvia is a freelance
producer for Channel 11's Chicago Tonight. Other duties there include
narration for Artbeat Chicago and production of a Chicago Humanities
Festival special.
Ewing received a
Broadcast Excellence Award from the Chicago Association of Black Journalists
for her work on Chicago Tonight and an award for a WBEZ Chicago
Public Radio radio program on youth violence.
Hillary
Frank
Hillary
Frank is a freelance writer and radio producer. Her work has aired on
This American Life,
Marketplace, Morning Edition, and Studio 360. She
is also the author of the forthcoming young adult novel Better Than
Running at Night. In 1998, her short short story "Sucked Dry"
won the The Connection's Short Short Story Contest. Last year for
Chicago Matters, Hillary contributed a two-part feature exploring
home schooling.
Ed
Janus
Ed James is an independent audio producer who has covered education
for 10 years. The Audio Producers Association awarded him an "Audie"
for best original production for You're Not Alone: Conversations with
Breast Cancer Survivors.
Sydney
Lewis
Sydney
Lewis has produced the Personal Essays for Chicago Matters since
1997. He is also the author of several books including Help Wanted:
Tales from the First Job Front.
Edie
Rubinowitz
A Lisagor award-winning journalist, Edie previously worked as a producer
and fill-in host for Chicago Public Radio's Worldview
after spending several years covering local news for the station.
Edie was was
one of eight journalists selected to spend five weeks traveling through
Panama and Guyana as part of the
Pew Fellowship in International Journalism. She received a Peter Lisagor
Award for Arts and Entertainment Reporting from the Chicago Headline Club
for her report on "Sounds from the Vault."
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