John DeNatale is an Emmy award-winning television producer and journalist with a long track record of leadership in a variety of public television projects. For the past 20 years Mr. DeNatale has worked in news, documentary and public affairs programming, currently as Executive Producer and Director of Local Programming for Thirteen/WNET, and previously at the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour where he was Senior Producer for National Affairs.
As Executive Producer and Director of Local Programming for Thirteen/WNET from 2001 to the present, Mr. DeNatale developed powerful local programming for the New York audience. Mr. DeNatale developed and oversees New York Voices, an award winning weekly series on Friday nights that presents the people behind the issues of our times. In health programming he oversees the New York Voices Health Specials, focusing recently on community efforts in the fights against AIDS, Alzheimer's disease and teen depression. He developed and oversees Thirteen's partnership with the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, producing the weekly health program for parents of young children called Keeping Kids Healthy. Other programs he oversees include Inside Trenton, Caucus New Jersey, Reel New York and the renowned Walking Tours series with David Hartman and historian Barry Lewis.
Mr. DeNatale's has also been Executive Producer for the following Documentary programs:
- Big Shots and Bad Guys in New York Sports. Winner of a 2003 Cine Golden Eagle Award as well as a New York Film Festival World Medal.
- The Lessons of September: One School Remembers 9/11. Winner of a Houston Film Festival Silver Award.
- Big Town Groove, a history of the impact of New York neighborhoods on music from Jazz to Hip Hop, winning a New York Emmy for outstanding writer 2004.
- A Year of Change: Leadership in the Principal's Office, a two-year project documenting three New York City school principals attempting to turn around failing city schools.
In 2000 Mr. DeNatale was Executive Producer of That Money Show on PBS, building on his business reporting background as producer/correspondent for Adam Smith's Money World also on PBS.
Mr. DeNatale spent thirteen years with the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS where he was the Senior Producer for National Affairs from 1989 to 1995, overseeing education, health, science, the arts and criminal justice. As a reporter for the NewsHour from 1984-1989 he covered a multitude of stories in business and economics, the environment, and education as well as following the Supreme Court. Mr. DeNatale was responsible for political programming at the NewsHour during political conventions in 1984, 1988 and 1992.
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