Board Members

Sandy King
NJN Due Process

Sandy King, a native Newarker, has been producing and directing award-winning documentaries, news and public affairs programs – generally focused on issues of race, class and justice - for more than 30 years.  Her Emmy-nominated documentaries, aired on PBS stations across the country, include Newark: The Slow Road Back, Prophet, The Writing on the Wall, This Little Light and Newark Boys Chorus: ROOTS.

She had covered legal and social issues for most of her long news career, before launching NJN’s acclaimed Due Process, which she writes, produces, reports and co-hosts.   

A 1998-99 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Ms. King's awards include the American Film Institute’s Bennett Award for Best Locally Produced Documentary, the National Headliner Award, The American Women in Radio and TV’s Pinnacle Award, the Leigh Whipper Gold Award from the Philadelphia International Film Festival, the CPB’s Silver Medal, several Cine Golden Eagles and Telly Awards, as well as honors at the Chicago, Athens and Houston Film Festivals.  She has also garnered 15 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards and more than 75 nominations. Cornell Brooks said of Ms. King, "She is a brilliant and caring dynamo. She brings a level of intelligence and empathy to some of the most searing problems of our day, and we are thrilled that she will be joining our board."

In addition to her work for public television, Sandy King has lectured extensively on journalism and public policy and for 15 years taught TV journalism at Rutgers University in Newark. She also taught Writing and Documentary at Harvard following her stint as a Nieman fellow – the first New Jersey recipient of journalism’s highest academic recognition.

Among her numerous honors, Ms. King – who began her career in journalism as a reporter for The Star-Ledger - has been a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Fund’s Civic Achievement Award, and has been named Rutgers-Newark Alumna of the Year, NJ Citizen Action’s Media Person of the Year, and a National Organization for Women “Role Model.”  As a lifelong Newarker, in 2008 Ms. King was installed in the first “class” of the Weequahic High School Hall of Fame.

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