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Randy Bean, MA

Randy Bean
Executive Producer
Documentaries and Television Projects


Address
rbean @ stanford.edu

Wallenberg Hall

Stanford, California, 94305-2130

Research Interests

Randy oversees the creation, production and distribution of Center content in the video format. She is an experienced producer,director and writer, having worked for public television stations and network news divisions. She was a Knight Fellow at Stanford, and has worked at the University in a variety of executive producer roles since 1996.

Randy Bean is executive producer for documentaries and special television projects at Stanford University. She serves as a consultant on media and communications for the SCL, and oversees the creation, production and distribution of Center content, in video and other formats. Bean is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and experienced broadcast journalist. She worked as a producer with Bill Moyers at WNET in New York, and covered major news stories for both ABC News and NBC News in their Washington bureaus. She came to Stanford as a Knight Professional Journalism Fellow, and moved to California to be a staff producer, director and writer of current affairs programs and investigative documentaries at KQED in San Francisco. She founded the Stanford Channel in 1995 and managed its operations until 2001. She has worked as writer and executive producer on a number of broadcast-quality Stanford productions, including Becoming Stanford: The Making of an American University, Seizing Power: The Steel Seizure Case Re-visited, The Stanford Presidency and A World of Change: The International Initiative at Stanford University. Her latest Stanford production, "What Were They Thinking?" Originalism, Music and the Constitution, will air on public television in Spring 2007. Bean attended Northwestern University and has a B.A. with special honors in political science from the George Washington University.



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