William R. Grant, Director of Science, Natural History and
Features
WNET/New York
Grant joined WNET in 1995 after 12 years at WGBH in Boston, where he
was managing editor of Frontline, and
executive editor of Nova. At WNET he
is in charge of one of U.S. public television's largest documentary production
departments which brings to national broadcast an average of 60 hours of
programs a year including one of PBS' most popular series, Nature. At WNET he has also been executive producer of Innovation and Going Places, two PBS anthology series, and numerous mini-series,
including America on Wheels, Savage
Skies, Savage Earth, Savage Seas, Knife to the Heart, Stephen Hawking's Universe, On the Trail of Mark Twain, The
American President, In Search of Ancient Ireland, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow,
Slavery and the Making of America and
African American Lives.He
has been responsible, as executive in charge of production, for Savage Planet, Secrets of the Dead, Secrets
of the Pharaohs, Warship, Waplane, Africa, Big Ideas,
1900 House, Frontier House, Manor House, Colonial House, Regency House, Texas Ranch
House, The Secret Life of the Brain, The Mysterious Human Heart, Do You Speak
American and The Supreme Court. Programs
produced under his supervision have won nine National News and Documentary Emmy
awards and eight George Foster Peabody awards. Prior to joining WGBH in 1983,
he was a reporter and editor at two of the nation's largest daily newspapers -
the Detroit Free Press and the San Francisco Chronicle, where his work
won numerous awards. In 1979-80 he was a Nieman
Fellow at Harvard University.He has been chairman of
the board of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival since 2002.