Kent Garrett Productions LLC

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

2007 – present: Producer, Kent Garrett Productions LLC

 

1997 – 2006: News Director, WICZ-TV, Binghamton, New York

                       In charge of news at a small Fox affiliate. Produced &

                       Directed in-studio a nightly half hour newscast.

 

1987 – 1997:  Producer/Senior Producer, NBC Nightly News

                       Producer of feature and hard news segments. One

                       of five Senior Producers. Responsible for production

                        of the “Fleecing of America” segments.

 

1986 – 1987:  Associate Professor, Binghamton University

                       Taught News Writing and History of the Documentary

                        courses.

 

1975 – 1986:  Producer, CBS News

                       Documentary producer for CBS REPORTS broadcast

                       Produced three hour long documentaries:

                       EMBASSY (with correspondent, Ed Bradley)… a profile

                       of the ambassador and U.S. embassy in Thailand.

                       GM: WHAT’S GOOD FOR GM (with correspondent,

                        Marlene Sanders)… The car company destroys a Detroit

                        Polish neighborhood to build a Cadillac plant.

                      A TIME TO DIE (with correspondent, Marlene Sanders)

                      … profiles of three young people facing death.

 

                      Producer, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather….

                      Produced and directed various feature and hard news

                      Segments.  Covered the Reverend Jesse Jackson

                       Democratic Presidential Nomination campaign, with

                      correspondent, Bob Faw.

 

1985 – 1986: News Director, WCVB-TV            Needham, MA

                      Director of daily morning newscast and

                       magazine broadcast

 

1969 – 1973: Producer, BLACK JOURNAL     NET

                      Produced and directed various segments, including

                      a one hour documentary on the BLACK G.I. in Vietnam.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

                     Harvard College         Cambridge, MA

                     Received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963

 

                     Boys High School      Brooklyn, New York

                     Received High School Diploma in 1959

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES

 

Tom Brokaw…. NBC News

 

Bill Wheatley…. former Vice- President, NBC News

 

Bill Moyers….  PBS

 

William Greaves…. William Greaves Productions