Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
Associate Producer | July 2016-August 2020
Walter Winchell pioneered a journalistic phenomenon: gossip, celebrity, politics, and news, all rolled into one. Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip explores this flawed protagonist and the world he created—a world we live in to this day.
I joined this project at its inception in the summer of 2016, providing research support and co-writing its initial grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities. When it won funding in the fall of 2018, I returned as Associate Producer, co-writing a second successful grant proposal for $650,000 and guiding the film to completion in 2020. As part of PBS's American Masters roster, Walter Winchell reached 1 million views in its first week.