Career Timeline

Kent Garrett

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