JANICE SELINGER

Janice Selinger
2nd Vice Chair & Mid-Atlantic Chapter Trustee

Award-winning producer Janice Selinger is deputy executive director for production at NJN Public Television and supervises the creation and production of local and original shows. She manages the Production, Programming, Media Productions, Pledge, Special Projects, Graphics, Closed Captioning and Project Budgeting functions of the Public Television Network. She is also executive producer in charge of development and production of many national and local documentaries for NJN. Her major projects include Domestic Violence: Faces of Fear; Battered Wives, Shattered Lives; Throwaway Pets; Mission from the Heart; Alice Paul: Crusader for Equality; and Reliving the Lindbergh Case, all of which have aired nationally on PBS. Ms. Selinger served as co-executive producer for NJN's first international co-production, Speak of Me As I Am, a documentary that examined the life and times of Paul Robeson and was co-produced with the BBC and NVC Arts.

Ms. Selinger has won numerous awards, including eleven regional Emmy awards, a 1986 National Headliner Award, a 1989 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award, the 1987 Vanguard Award and a National Commendation Award from American Women in Radio and Television. Ms. Selinger won a Gracie Award for New Media for the web site outreach and documentary Seeking Solutions, a program that examined innovative programs aimed at stemming violence in our schools. Reliving the Lindbergh Case received a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award in 1989. Battered Wives: Shattered Lives garnered the 1985 National Headliner Award for Outstanding Public Service by a Television Network. Ms. Selinger has received awards from the Associated Press, Sigma Delta Chi, and New Jersey Bar Association.

Prior to joining NJN in 1979, Ms. Selinger worked at WCBS-TV in New York where she was associate producer for the Emmy Award-winning consumer affairs show, On Your Side with John Stossel, and the documentary series, Channel 2-Eye On. A native of East Brunswick, NJ, Ms. Selinger holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State University and a master’s in public administration from Rutgers University. She is a member of Phi Bata Kappa and teaches in the Communication Studies Department at the College of New Jersey.

NORMAN FELSENTHAL

Norm Felsenthal is Professor Emeritus of Communications at Temple University in Philadelphia, having recently retired after serving 33 years as a faculty member in the Department of Broadcasting and Telecommunications.  Previously, he taught for four years in the Department of Communication at Purdue University.

In addition to representing the Mid-Atlantic Chapter as a National Trustee, Norm is Chair of the Television Academy Scholarship Committee and a member of the Television Quarterly Editorial Board.  He is the author of numerous articles in academic journals as well as a widely used text in Mass Communication.  Norm has also served as a director of the Broadcast Education Association, an affiliate of the National Broadcasting Association, and as chair of the National Communication Association Mass Communication Division.  For over fifteen years, he chaired the Cable Advisory Commission for Lower Merion Township, PA.  

Norm has been a member of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter since its creation in 1983.  He has served that chapter as program chair, scholarship chair, and as a member of the Board of Governors. 
The International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) has honored Norm with a Frank Stanton Fellowship for “his distinguished contribution to broadcast education.” 

Prior to his academic career, Norm served for three years as an officer in the United States Navy.  He holds a B.S. for Miami University (Ohio), an M.A. from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.