June Cross

June Cross

June Cross is an award-winning producer with thirty years of television news and documentary experience. She was most recently an executive producer for This Far by Faith, a six-part PBS series on the African-American religious experience. She worked for PBS’s Frontline, CBS News, and PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her reporting for the NewsHour on the US invasion of Grenada won the 1983 Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story. Secret Daughter, an autobiographical film that examined how race and color had affected her family, won an Emmy in 1997 and was honored that same year with a duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. She is also the author of a memoir, Secret Daughter published by Viking in 2006.

Her latest documentary, The Old Man and the Storm, which follows the travails of an extended New Orleans family for three years post-Katrina, will air on PBS' Frontline in early 2009. Her other credits include: Ashes of the Cold War; Showdown in Haiti; The Confessions of RosaLee; and A Kid Kills. Cross was senior producer for the FRONTLINE productions Living on the Edge with correspondent Bill Moyers, Mandela, and School Colors, which won a duPont-Columbia Journalism Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism in 1995. Cross received her B.A. from Harvard, and was a fellow at Carnegie-Mellon University's School of Urban and Public Affairs and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies at Harvard.

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