Sharon Tiller is WGBH executive-in-charge for Frontline/World. Tiller joined Frontline in 1995. As senior producer, she works with independent producers to develop ideas, funding strategies and documentary proposals for the series and oversees the production of a number of programs each season.
In 2002, Tiller and executive producer David Fanning launched a new international magazine series Frontline/World that features the work of a new generation of video journalists.
In 1996, she helped establish the Frontline West project at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where producers-in-residence work with graduates of the documentary programme on a number of Frontline and World projects each academic year. Tiller also teaches a course at the journalism school.
Her recent Frontline credits include Drug Wars, a critically acclaimed four-hour special on America’s 30-year war on drug abuse and drug crime, and Blackout, a joint Frontline/New York Times investigation of the California energy crisis and the role of energy traders such as the Enron Corporation.
Before joining Frontline, Tiller was the executive director for the San Francisco-based Centre for Investigative Reporting, where she managed editorial and administrative operations. In 1989, she launched and supervised an independent documentary unit at CIR, which has co-produced 15 investigative documentaries for Frontline.
Tiller has received two 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, as well as a national Emmy and the George Foster Peabody Award for Drug Wars.