HAP's Jerry Levine's Resume

JERROD M. LEVINE
HIGHER AUTHORITY PRODUCTIONS
10800 Biscayne Boulevard Suite 800 Miami, Florida 33161
305-899-3002

1989-Present	Higher Authority Productions, President and Executive Producer. Responsible for co-founding an independent television production company with an emphasis on producing documentaries and strategic video presentations for humanitarian agencies and corporations. Oversee all aspects of program evolution, from concept development to on-line editing. Recent projects have appeared on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel, CNN's Money Line program with Lou Dobbs, and have been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
1989 - 1985	WPLG TV 10, Miami. Responsibilities included anchoring the weekend 6 and 11 p.m.newscasts for the area's number one rated ABC affiliate station. Other duties included: morning anchorman, investigative business reporter,general assignment news reporter, and co-host and coordinating producer for Eyewitness News Magazine - the station's Sunday evening prime time magazine format program. Appeared live, as a special correspondent on ABC's Good Morning America. Guest Lecturer, University of Miami Graduate School of Communications.
1985 - 1983	WJXT TV 4, Jacksonville. Responsibilities included all aspects of general assignment reporting and the creation of full length investigative documentaries in conjunction with the Post-Newsweek documentaries unit. Reports appeared on the CBS Morning News.
1983 - 1981	WPTV TV 5, West Palm Beach. Responsibilities included general assignment news reporting and live shot reporting for this number one rated NBC affiliate station.
Awards	Alfred I. duPont - Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism,1984, for "The Smell of Money," a documentary appearing on WJXT and implicating several major industrial corporations for their ongoing violations of the Federal Clean Air Act. The award was presented by John Chancellor and Peter Jennings during a live broadcast on PBS.
	Emmy Award, 1985, for producing programs on WPLG, encouraging Floridians to participate in regular medical examinations.
	Lee and Mimi Adams Environmental Award, 1984, the highest environmental honor bestowed by the State of Florida, for reporting relating to the protection of the state's natural resources.
Education	Florida State University, B.S. in Mass Communications, 1981. Creator, News Director, Anchorman of the University's first student operated newscast airing on local CBS station.
	Harvard University, Special Student, 1977.
Memberships	National Association of Television Producers and Executives; National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; American Society of Association Executives, National Society of Fund Raising Executives, Screen Actors Guild.
Miisc.	State Champion, representing Florida at the United States Public Speaking Championships, sponsored by the National Forensic League, Washington, 1977.
	Miami Herald Silver Knight Award recipient, 1977.