Sandra King, NJN Senior Producer,
Is Nominated for Two New York Emmys

STATEWIDE –NJN Public Television and Radio is pleased to announce that Sandra King has received two New York Emmy Award nominations for her role as senior producer and managing editor for two episodes of Due Process, NJN’s weekly series on law and justice issues.

The award-winning Due Process, now in its ninth season, examines one cutting-edge issue of law and justice each week, including the Mandatory Sentencing and Under God programs nominated in New York .

Mandatory Sentencing looked into the dilemma of judges forced to impose long sentences by legislative mandate. It featured exclusive interviews with both Bobby Cumber, convicted as a co-conspirator in the Robert Marshall murder-for-hire trial, and the Superior Court judge who was required to sentence him to a minimum 30 years, despite his own misgivings. Under God explored the controversy surrounding a federal appellate court decision that would strike the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mandatory Sentencing was nominated in the category of Crime Programming and Under God in the category of Religious Programming. The New York Chapter of the National Television Academy announces the Emmy Award winners on March 28 in New York City .

Sandra King is senior producer, correspondent and managing editor for Due Process at NJN Public Television & Radio. She has been a senior correspondent and anchor for NJN News, a producer for numerous NJN specials and producer/director for prize-winning NJN documentaries. Prior to joining NJN in 1978, King worked as a host/producer for public affairs programs on WNET/13 and as a reporter for The Newark Star-Ledger.

King’s many award-winning NJN documentaries have focused mostly on her native Newark and its people. Among them are The Writing on the Wall,a year in the life of a teenage graffiti "crew," which was featured at film festivals in the U.S., Canada and Europe; Prophet!, a study of an inner-city tent evangelist, which won honors at the Black Maria, Athens, Chicago, Philafilm and Houston festivals;

Newark: The Slow Road Back , which won the American Film Institute Award for best locally produced television documentary and played at the Public Theatre in New York ; and Newark Boys Chorus: Roots, which followed the Newark Boys Chorus on their tour of South Africa and won Best Feature from the Deadline Club, NYC Society of Professional Journalists.

King has won numerous other awards, including six Mid-Atlantic Emmys, more than 50 Emmy nominations, two CINE Golden Eagles, five Telly Awards and nine Unity Awards, as well as top honors from the National Headliner Awards and the CEN Program Awards. She is the first and only New Jersey journalist to date to be selected for a year-long Nieman Fellowship, which enabled King to study at Harvard University in 1998-99.

King taught television journalism at Rutgers-Newark for 15 years. Following her year as a Nieman Fellow, she taught documentary writing at Harvard University in 1999. She is a lifelong resident of Newark, and has one son, Yhonny , a junior at Temple University in Philadelphia.

In addition to King, other NJN staff who received New York Emmy Award nominations for the two Due Process programs are Jeff Friedman, executive producer; Henrietta Parker, coordinating producer; and Raymond Brown, host. Major funding for the Due Process series is made possible by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation with funding from the IOLTA Fund of the Bar of New Jersey. Additional support is provided by NJ Lawyers Diary and Manual.