John Barra
Segment Producer

John has been a producer/director in the Media Productions department at NJN Public Television since 1992. His wide range of producing credits includes NJ Works, on which he was Series Producer, Tomorrow’s Classrooms Today and the pilot for New Jersey, Inc., which became an Emmy-nominated weekly NJN business series. John has worked in Los Angeles as an Associate Producer/Casting Associate for MTV’s The Real World and Fox After Breakfast, in Philadelphia for CN8: The Comcast Network and in New York City as a Senior Producer for the Macy’s Satellite Network. A member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) since 1993, he has twenty-four nominations under his belt. He currently serves as a member of NATAS Board of Governors, is currently Treasurer, and has produced the local Emmy telecast for the past five years. John is a magna cum laude graduate from Trenton State College, now The College of New Jersey, where he received the Communications Award of the Year in 1992. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of Communications.