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1994 — the present · the commercial stations' newsrooms are in the Newspapers & Media chapter
The city's own documentaries: The producing that Fort Wayne watches at home is public television's. WFWA — PBS Fort Wayne — has made local documentary in the city for decades; the library catalog credits Claudia Johnson as producer, writer, and editor of Fort Wayne Memories: The '50s (1994), the station's oral-history portrait of the city's postwar decade. The current generation of the station's producers stands in the 2024 Telly Awards: A Home for the Arts, producer-director Jonathon Nuthals; Fort Wayne Ballet Dancer's Legacy — Edward Stierle, executive producer Todd Grimes; and the station's Writers Contest 2023 and "Joy" promotion, producer-director Jeff Blossom. Behind them sits the training layer: College TV Fort Wayne at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where producer Alix Watson works under the Center for Collaborative Media's director, Art Herbig, and student crews have produced more than four hundred programs — the bench from which the city's stations and agencies draw their producers.
Sources:
- Allen County Public Library catalog record, via the ACGSI Allen County timeline — Fort Wayne Memories. The '50s, a production of WFWA-TV39, PBS Fort Wayne (1994; DVD 2005): "producer, writer, editor, Claudia Johnson."
- PBS Fort Wayne, Telly Awards announcement, 23 May 2024 (via IPBS) — A Home for the Arts, Producer/Director Jonathon Nuthals, Silver Telly; Fort Wayne Ballet Dancer's Legacy — Edward Stierle, Executive Producer Todd Grimes, Silver Telly; Writers Contest 2023, Producer/Director Jeff Blossom, Silver Telly; "Joy," Producer/Director Jeff Blossom, Bronze Telly.
- Purdue University Fort Wayne, "College TV Fort Wayne has solid reputation for developing talent" — producer Alix Watson and production manager Will Beamon under director Art Herbig; more than 400 student-produced videos.