JANICE SELINGER

Deputy Executive Director for Production

Janice Selinger is Deputy Executive Director for Production at NJN Public Television where she supervises local and original show production. She also is Executive Producer in Charge of Development and Production of national and local documentaries for NJN. Selinger supervises all station production, oversees Media Productions, programming, web, archiving, project budgeting, closed captioning and program development.

Her major projects include The Hidden Child; Domestic Violence: Faces Of Fear; Battered Wives, Shattered Lives; Throwaway Pets; Mission from the Heart; 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, examining the life and times of Paul Robeson. The program was a co-production with the BBC and NVC Arts.

Reliving the Lindbergh Case received a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award in 1989. Battered Wives: Shattered Lives garnered the 1985 National Headliner Award for Outstanding Public Service by a Television Network. Selinger also has received awards from the Associated Press, Sigma Delta Chi, and New Jersey Bar Association. Selinger has won numerous awards, including twelve regional Emmy awards, a 1986 National Headliner Award, a 1989 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award, the 1987 Vanguard Award and a National Commendation Award from American Women in Radio and Television. Selinger was awarded a Gracie Award for new media for the web site outreach and documentary Seeking Solutions, a program that examined innovative programs aimed at stemming violence in our schools. She was also awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service for On-line Journalism for Diagnosis Cancer.

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.

A native of East Brunswick, N.J., Selinger graduated Phi Beta Kappa and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State University and a master’s in public administration from Rutgers. She teaches in the Communication Studies Department at the College of New Jersey, formerly Trenton State College.

Selinger is the Second Vice Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and was formerly the National Secretary. She has served on the National Awards Committee and is a member of the National Scholarship Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and serves as Trustee for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter.

Selinger is married to Martin Kline, an attorney in private practice in New Jersey. She has two children, Howard Kline and Lesley Kline. Howard is a first year law student and Lesley is a junior in college.