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David E. Fanning (born 25 May 1946) is a South African American journalist and filmmaker. He was the executive producer of the investigative documentary series Frontline since its first season in 1983 to his retirement in 2015.
David Fanning, FRONTLINE’s founder, served as executive producer of the series from its first season in 1983 until 2015. He then served as executive producer at large until early 2022.
Dec 15, 2015 · While David Fanning started out as a filmmaker, his great skill has been to make films happen. From 1983 through this May, as the executive producer of the PBS series Frontline, he engineered...
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Mar 2, 2017 · David Fanning. Over his tenure, Fanning has sat in the editing room and challenged hundreds of filmmakers on topics as far-ranging as myths within the NFL to the origins of Islamic terrorism.
David Fanning, executive producer of “Frontline,” will be recognized with this year’s Goldsmith Career Award for his distinguished broadcast journalism career by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy today (March 23) at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Jul 9, 2013 · The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced that David Fanning, founder and executive producer of FRONTLINE, will receive its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award...
Fanning — who was awarded Harvard University’s 2010 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism and recently received the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award — began his filmmaking career as a young journalist in South Africa. Watch his keynote address here.
