Raney Aronson is a senior producer for Frontline . She started to produce programs for Frontline in January 2002. As of 2005, she had made three full-length Frontline documentaries (“The Soldier’s Heart,” “The Jesus Factor,” and “The Alternative Fix”), as well as three Frontline/World stories based in India and Hong Kong. “The Jesus Factor,” about President George W. Bush’s faith, was Frontline’s highest rated show for the 2003-2004 season. She won an Overseas Press Club Award for her Frontline / World story on AIDS among India’s sex workers.

Before Frontline , Aronson worked on a number of award-winning series at ABC News, including “Hopkins 24/7,” which won the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton among other awards. Previous to her work in New York, Aronson reported for the China Post in Taipei, Taiwan. Aronson was awarded the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2001-2002 media fellowship, a Sundance Documentary Fund grant (2002), a New York State Council on the Arts Grant (2002), and an International Reporting Project Fellowship in 2000.

Aronson holds a BA in South Asian studies and History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She earned a Masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Listen to Aronson on how the abortion idea arose.
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