Nancy Platt Jacoby
Nancy Platt Jacoby
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Nancy Jacoby is the Executive Producer of Are We There Yet? a prime
time series for Discovery's Travel Channel. She is also an adjunct
journalism professor in the graduate division at USC's Annenberg School
and is the CEO of Nancy Jacoby Productions. Jacoby is a journalist,
director, writer and producer. She executive produces and directs
pilots, series, shows and broadcasts for various network, syndicated
and cable outlets. From 2003--2005 Jacoby traveled throughout America
shooting "Stories from the Heartland," for the Travel Channel. From
2000-2002 Jacoby was MSNBC's Primetime Senior Executive Producer
overseeing all MSNBC Special Reports and Documentaries as well as
Headliners and Legends with Matt Lauer. She developed, commissioned and
supervised over one hundred primetime documentary hours in that time.
An Emmy winning producer, Jacoby joined MSNBC in 2000 as creator and
Executive Producer of HomePage, a daily 3-hour live news, talk and
information program. HomePage introduced NBC News' rising young star,
Ashleigh Banfield, who was recruited by Jacoby as lead anchor. HomePage
was so successful on MSNBC that a daily live hour of the program also
aired on the NBC Television Network in 2000. Jacoby has more than 20
years of journalism experience in print and broadcast news and is
considered a versatile leader in the media. She's received acclaim for
her writing, directing, reporting and producing. She began her
broadcast career with KCBS-TV News in Los Angeles. Among other duties,
she served as Assistant News Director, Executive Producer of all news
broadcasts and Executive Producer of investigative reporting. In 1984,
she Executive Produced KCBS' coverage of the Democratic and Republican
Conventions and the L.A. Olympics. Jacoby joined CBS News in 1986 as
West Coast producer of The CBS Morning News. She later moved to ABC to
create a West Coast Bureau for Good Morning America and serve as its
first bureau chief. Jacoby has written feature and cover stories for
magazines including: Elle, Los Angeles, Lears and Glamour. In addition
to Jacoby's news experience, she has been involved with a wide variety
of entertainment ventures including feature films, movies of the week,
entertainment and reality-based programming. At CBS, Jacoby wrote,
produced and directed three specials that served as pilots for the hit
primetime series, Rescue 911 (1989). She went on to produce the first two
seasons, as well as direct many of the segments and programs. Later,
Jacoby was the producer of ABC's daytime drama, Port Charles (1997), and the first
supervising producer of Access Hollywood. She wrote and directed a
two-hour syndicated reality special, Fatal Passions, hosted by Patty Duke.
This show generated 15,000 viewer response calls. In addition, Jacoby
was Co-Producer of the CBS docudrama, The Charles Stuart Story, and
consulting producer for the CBS reality series, True Detectives. In
1991 she formed Nancy Jacoby Productions, which develops and produces
non-fiction, talk, documentary and reality-based programming, and was
exclusively associated with ABC Productions until 1994. Jacoby has been
involved in the development, startup and production of several talk and
information series for syndication and cable. In 1998 & 1999 she
created and executive produced Travel Daily (1998) for Discovery's Travel Channel
and before that helped start-up and run CBS's syndicated _"Day and
Date" (1995)_ . In addition to an Emmy, Jacoby has won a Peoples'
Choice Award, three Golden Mike Awards from the Los Angeles Radio &
Television News Association, numerous L.A. Press Club Awards, a
California Associated Press Statewide Award for Best Documentary, a Los
Angeles Trial Lawyers National Award for legal coverage, and a Silver
Award from the Houston Film Festival. Jacoby was a finalist in the Film
and TV Festival of New York, as well as the Women in Film Awards. She
was a recent winner of Best Daytime Drama in the Media Access
Awards.
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