Joan Konner, an award-winning producer, documentarian and trailblazing dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has died. She was 87. She died April 18 of leukemia in Manhattan.
Konner was known for numerous documentaries and television series. She was born on Feb. 24, 1931, in Paterson, NJ, and started her professional media career after she graduated with a master’s from Columbia’s school of journalism in 1961.
She began writing for New Jersey’s The Bergen Record after she graduated and shifted gears in 1977 when she became the executive producer for national news and public affairs for PBS outlet Wnet/Thirteen in New York. She then became the executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal in the ’80s. It was there when she would become the president and executive producer of Public Affairs Television, Moyers’ production company. While at Bill Moyers she also helped produce the acclaimed six-part docuseries Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyers.
Konner was known for numerous documentaries and television series. She was born on Feb. 24, 1931, in Paterson, NJ, and started her professional media career after she graduated with a master’s from Columbia’s school of journalism in 1961.
She began writing for New Jersey’s The Bergen Record after she graduated and shifted gears in 1977 when she became the executive producer for national news and public affairs for PBS outlet Wnet/Thirteen in New York. She then became the executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal in the ’80s. It was there when she would become the president and executive producer of Public Affairs Television, Moyers’ production company. While at Bill Moyers she also helped produce the acclaimed six-part docuseries Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyers.
- 4/23/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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