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Regional Judges: Raney Aronson-Rath

Raney Aronson-Rath
Senior Producer, “Frontline,” PBS

Raney Aronson-Rath is the series' senior producer and is the producer, director and writer of six full-length documentaries: News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin (2007); The Last Abortion Clinic (2005); The Soldier's Heart (2005); The Jesus Factor (2004); and The Alternative Fix, (2003); as well as three “Frontline/World” stories based in India and Hong Kong. Her story on AIDS among India's sex workers, won an Overseas Press Club Award. She is also the 2005 inaugural recipient of the Peter S. McGhee Fellowship award from WGBH.

Previous to 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, among other awards. She was coordinating producer on the award-winning ABC primetime series “Boston 24/7” and a field producer on a number of 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. She has been awarded the Kaiser Family Foundation's 2001-2002 media fellowship, a Sundance Documentary Fund grant (2002), a New York State Council on the Arts grant (2002) and an International Reporting Project Fellowship in 2000.

Aronson-Rath has a bachelor's degree in South Asian studies and history from the University of Wisconsin at 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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