Tom Yellin: Educate Girls, Change the World
By highlighting the importance of educating girls, journalist and executive producer of The Documentary Group Tom Yellin and his team set out to help end global poverty. In his project 10×10, Tom illustrates the next wave of journalism and advocacy that breaks down the walls of exclusivity through active partnerships, sharing and great storytelling.
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ABOUT Tom Yellin
“Tom Yellin is the president and executive producer of The Documentary Group, a company that produces theatrical documentaries, prime time programmes for ABC News, and documentaries for other broadcasters and distributors. The company’s purpose is to create non-fiction of the highest quality to reach the broadest possible audience.
The Documentary Group’s most recent projects include ‘To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports’, an ABC News special aired on February 27 that tells the story of Woodruff’s life-threatening injury and painstaking recovery and reports on inadequacies in the treatment of veterans with similar brain injuries; and ‘Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience’, a documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American soldiers through their own words.
The Documentary Group also includes the subsidiary company High Ground Productions. The Documentary Group is the successor to PJ Productions, a company Yellin formed with Peter Jennings in 2002 to produce the award winning series Peter Jennings Reporting.
Before the formation of PJ Productions, Mr. Yellin was an executive producer at ABC News. He created the Peter Jennings Reporting series with Mr. Jennings in 1989. He began his career in network news in 1976, as an associate producer at CBS News for CBS Reports.
He went to ABC News as a New York-based producer for Nightline from its premiere in 1980 until 1982, followed by two years as the Nightline senior producer in London. He returned to New York in 1984 as a senior producer for ABC News’ World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
In 1985 he went back to CBS News as senior producer of the weekly series, West 57th where he stayed until the programne ended in 1989. Tom Yellin graduated from Harvard College. He is married with four daughters and lives in New York City.”
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