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Betsy West
Development Director/Producer
Betsy West is an award-winning producer and executive with more than twenty-five years experience in the network television and documentary film worlds. In addition to serving as producer for Constantine’s Sword and other Storyville projects, she is Visiting Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism. She is also Executive Producer of Women 2.0, a documentary, book and internet project about the women’s movement that is currently in development.
West began her career at ABC News, where she traveled the world as one of the original producers of Nightline and was part of the senior team that launched the magazine program PrimeTime Live in 1989. She was Executive Producer of the ABC documentary program Turning Point from 1994-1998. Her work at ABC earned her 18 Emmy Awards. Turning Point won two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Gold Baton Awards, an Overseas Press Club Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. As Senior Vice President at CBS NEWS from 1998-2005, she oversaw 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, and was the executive in charge of 9/11, the 2-hour documentary that won a Peabody Award and the PrimeTime Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2002.
West graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University, where she is a Trustee Emerita and runs a Media Advisory Council. She earned a Master’s degree from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. She currently serves on the boards of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research and The New Victory Theater in New York City and is a member of the Overseas Press Club.
betsywestnyc@aol.com
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