NJN’s Janice Selinger Wins National Cine Golden Eagle Award and Is Nominated for a New York Emmy

STATEWIDE –NJN Public Television and Radio is pleased to announce that Janice Selinger is the recipient of a national CINE Golden Eagle Award and a New York Emmy Award nomination for her role as executive producer for The Race for Open Space. This one-hour documentary, narrated by Good Morning America ’s Charles Gibson, examines the harmful effects of sprawl on the environment and the importance of preserving open space. The show will air on PBS stations nationally beginning this April.

The CINE Awards recognizes excellence in documentary and other informational film and video production. Past CINE Award recipients have included Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as well as Charles Guggenheim and Frederick Wiseman. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on April 22 in Washington , DC .

The New York Chapter of the National Television Academy announces the Emmy Award winners on March 28 in New York City . The Race for Open Space was nominated in the category of Environmental Programming.

Janice Selinger is deputy executive director for production at NJN Public Television. Among her major projects are Domestic Violence: Faces of Fear; Battered Wives: Shattered Lives; Throwaway Pets; Mission from theHeart; Alice Paul: Crusader for Equality; and Reliving the Lindbergh Case — all of which aired nationally on PBS.

Selinger also served as co-executive producer for NJN's first international co-production, Speak of Me As I Am, which examined the life and times of Paul Robeson. The program was a co-production with the BBC and NVC Arts. She was executive producer of the award-winning Tight on the Spiral, a documentary profiling NFL Films and the impact the father and son company has had on television and movie coverage of football. Recently Selinger served as executive producer for Teaching over Time, a comprehensive documentary examining the history of public school education in New Jersey .

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Selinger has won numerous awards, including eleven regional Emmy Awards, as well as a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award in 1989 for Reliving the Lindbergh Case and a

National Headliner Award in 1986 for Battered Wives: Shattered Lives. She also won a Gracie Award for New Media for the Web site outreach and documentary, Seeking Solutions, which examined innovative programs aimed at stemming violence in our schools. Just recently, The Gift of Life, for which she served as executive producer, received the 2003 Clarion Award from Women in Communications, The Best of the Best Award from the New Jersey Broadcasters Association and a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award.

Prior to joining NJN in 1979, Selinger was on the staff of WCBS-TV in New York where she was associate producer for the Emmy Award-winning consumer affairs show, On Your Side with John Stossel; and the documentary series, Channel 2-Eye On. Prior to her work in television, Selinger was a reporter for The Asbury Park Pressand a freelance writer published in Philadelphia Magazine, The New York Times and The Home News.

A native of East Brunswick, New Jersey, Selinger holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Selinger also has a master’s in public administration from Rutgers-Newark. She has taught broadcast newswriting at Rutgers University and currently teaches in the communication studies department at the College of New Jersey. Selinger lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania with her husband Martin Kline and their two children, Howard, a freshman at Columbia University; and Lesley, a junior in high school.

In addition to Selinger, other NJN staff who received New York Emmy Award nominations for The Race for Open Space are Lynn Kosek Walker, producer and writer; Dari Mandell, associate producer; and Sia Nyorkor, associate producer. The CINE Golden Eagle Award acknowledges the entire production team along with Steve Oleszek , graphic artist, and Tim Hufnell, editor. Funding for The Race for Open Space was provided by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.