WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of fully one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. Its production menu is diverse, including Nova, Frontline, American Experience, Antiques Roadshow, Masterpiece Theatre, Arthur, and Postcards from Buster on PBS and The World and Sound & Spirit on public radio. WGBH is the number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, the most-visited dot-org on the Internet. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards, and two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence.
WGBH also supports afterschool programs through such activities as Club Zoom, and partnerships with community-based organizations like the Boys and Girls Club.
WGBH's Partnership Role
The Foundation, which is affiliated with WGBH Public Television in Boston, provides media production services, working under the direction of SEDL staff and with guidance from the Content Advisory Team. Specifically, WGBH produces the video vignettes of promising and exemplary afterschool programming for use with the project's Afterschool Training Toolkit and other technical assistance resources. WGBH also offers guidance to project staff regarding multimedia product development.
Project Staff
Amy Tonkonogy, Media Production Staff
Ms. Tonkonogy is Executive Producer, Educational Productions, responsible for department oversight and strategic planning, project management, and new project development. She supervises production teams and research staff, oversees budgets and timelines, works with advisors and experts to maintain content integrity, hires and trains new project staff, and represents projects within the foundation and to the broader education community. Prior to becoming Executive Producer, she served as a Senior Project Director for Educational Programming and Outreach. Her projects include: Social Studies in Action, Beyond the Bell, Teaching Foreign Languages, Student Voices, Learning Math, Learning That Works, Beyond September 11th, Teaching Reading, and Teachers as Learners. Ms. Tonkonogy has been with WGBH since 1990 and has numerous other education-related productions to her credit. She holds a B.S. in Speech Communication from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, and a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Arthur Raymond Smith, Media Production Staff
Mr. Smith is a Senior Multimedia Producer whose responsibilities include project management and editorial production of web sites, CD-ROMs , DVD-Video and related interactive multimedia products. His duties encompass all aspects of production from the concept stage through completed delivery and distribution. Prior to joining WGBH, Mr. Smith served as Information Service Director for OPERA America in Washington, D.C. His primary areas of expertise include arts and cultural programming and interpretive programs for diverse audiences. His productions include the Misunderstood Minds Web site, a companion site to a PBS special on learning differences and disabilities (2002), and Beyond the Bell, the Internet component of a joint Web and video project for improving afterschool programs. The Misunderstood Minds Web site received the Massachusetts Interactive Multimedia Award for education in 2002.
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