Raney Aronson-Rath is the Executive Producer of FRONTLINE, PBS’ flagship investigative journalism series, and a leading voice on the future of journalism. Under her leadership, FRONTLINE has earned two Oscar nominations, and has won every major award in broadcast journalism, including Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards, an Institutional Peabody Award, and the first Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Gold Baton awarded in a decade. For 16 years, Aronson-Rath has served as a Livingston Awards judge honoring reporters under the age of 35 and identifying the next generation of journalism leaders.

For this speaker series event, Raney Aronson-Rath will be in conversation with Lynette Clemetson, the Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR.