Entrepreneurship at Swarthmore
The Jonathan R. Lax '71 Conference on Entrepreneurship
Sunday, March 30, 2008
11 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
 | Martha Spanninger '76 B.A., English literature, with a concentration in theatre |
Martha Spanninger is an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than twenty-five years of experience. Her career has included assignments at PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS as well as work on numerous independent projects. In December 2004, she left ABC News to serve as senior supervising producer with Executive Producer John Siceloff (Swarthmore '76) at NOW on PBS.
Martha has produced for ABC News' 20/20 and Primetime; NBC's Dateline and Now; and CBS' West 57th, CBS Reports, and Our Times with Bill Moyers. Decade, a two-hour documentary she produced and directed for MTV, won both the Peabody and Emmy awards in 1990, and The Wrong Stuff?, about America's first women astronaut hopefuls won the GRACIE Award in 1996. In 2001, she traveled to Mumbai and Kerela with her 13-year-old son to produce and shoot the India portion of World Birthday, which chronicled birth and culture in 10 different countries for Granada Television and TLC. She was a senior producer at NBC News and ABC News Productions, overseeing the editorial content and production of more than 50 original documentaries which won over 50 awards including the Christopher, Cine Golden Eagle, BANF Film Festival, Women's Image Network Award, and the U.S. International Film and Video Festival.
Martha serves on the board of Video Volunteers, an international organization based in India with a mission to give voice to the poorest people in the world using digital video. She has served as a screener and judge for the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards and the Emmy Awards and she served on the Swarthmore Alumni Council from 2004-2006.