S09:18 A Conversation with Betsy West

Betsy West is the director/producer of RBG (Magnolia, Participant, CNN Films, 2018) along with Julie Cohen. She is a 21-time Emmy Award winner for her work as an ABC News producer and executive producer of the documentary series Turning Point. As vice president at CBS News from 1998 to 2005, she oversaw 60 Minutes and 48 Hours.  

She was executive producer of the MAKERS (AOL & PBS, 2012) documentary and digital series, the short documentary, The 4%: Film’s Gender Problem (Epix, 2016) and the feature  documentary, The Lavender Scare (2017).

Betsy is a graduate of Brown University and is the Fred W. Friendly professor at Columbia Journalism School. 

This episode of "A Conversation with..." was produced by Renée Yaworsky and Dennis Tardan.