Jason Samuels - 2008 Fellow

JASON SAMUELS
Senior Producer
ABC News

Jason is the senior producer in charge of digital content for “World News with Charles Gibson.” In that role, he oversees the daily production of the “World News” webcast and the broadcast integration with ABCNews.com. The 15-minute “World News” webcast, is an original program featuring reports from around the world and is the only daily network news program produced exclusively for the web.

Prior to joining ABC News in 2006, Jason spent 11 years as a producer for the newsmagazine Dateline NBC where he produced hour-long reports on subjects ranging from welfare reform to post traumatic stress disorder. In 2004 Jason produced the Dateline NBC hour – “A Pattern of Suspicion,” a groundbreaking examination of racial profiling that won several of the most prestigious prizes in broadcast journalism including a Columbia University-Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton, an RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award and an Investigative Reporter and Editor Award.

Jason has won numerous other awards for his work including one Emmy Award, five Emmy nominations - including three for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, a Freedom Forum Excellence in Urban Journalism Award, a Cine Golden Eagle Award, a New York Association of Black Journalist Award for Overall Excellence, and an American Women in Radio and Television Grace Award.

Jason began his career in journalism as a news writer and producer at WCVB-TV in Boston. He is a graduate of the Ethical-Culture Fieldston School in New York, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Tufts University and a Master of Journalism degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Jason was born and raised in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife.