Sharon Tiller
Producer
Sharon Tiller is senior producer for special projects for FRONTLINE. In that role she has overseen and helped shape numerous programs for the series, including the critically acclaimed four-part special Drug Wars. Other projects include So You Want to Buy a President, Why America Hates the Press, Fooling with Nature, Secrets of the SAT, and Blackout. In 2001, Tiller and executive producer David Fanning jointly developed an international news magazine series FRONTLINE/World. Before joining FRONTLINE, Tiller was the executive director for the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), where in 1989 she launched an independent documentary unit. As executive producer, she developed seven investigative documentaries for FRONTLINE: Global Dumping Ground with Bill Moyers; The Great American Bailout; Best Campaign Money Can Buy; Your Loan Is Denied; The Politics of Power; Public Lands, Private Profits; and School Colors. Tiller has received three Dupont-Columbia University Broadcast Journalism Awards, a George Polk Award for National Television Reporting, a World Affairs Council Award of Excellence for International Reporting, two National Education Writers’ First Prizes for Documentary Television, three National Emmys and the George Foster Peabody Award for Drug Wars, as well as the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow Award for the 2004 season of FRONTLINE/World.