Michael Winship

Michael Winship is president of the Writers Guild of America, East. He’s a writer and producer who has worked for PBS, CBS, the Discovery and Learning channels, A&E, Turner Broadcasting, the Disney Channel, the Children’s Television Workshop, National Geographic and the Smithsonian. A writer of documentaries, news and public affairs, kids’ TV, and music and arts specials, he has been nominated for the Writers Guild Award five times, and received it in 2004 for commentary written with Bill Moyers. His credits include: the public television with Bill Moyers; Nova; Nature; American Experience; Smithsonian World; and Television, an illustrated history of the medium for which he also wrote a companion book; the Children’s Television Workshop series 3-2-1 Contact and Square One TV; the documentaries How the West Was Lost; Our Time in Hell: The Korean War; In Search of the Oregon Trail; and Biography of the Millennium; music specials including In Performance at the White House; and the Emmy-nominated My Sergei. From 1994-98, Winship was supervising producer of Audubon Productions for the National Audubon Society. His latest television work is as co-producer of the documentary Baghdad Diary. Winship writes a syndicated weekly column for more than 100 daily newspapers.