Raney Aronson-Rath

Raney Aronson-Rath is the editor-in-chief and executive producer of PBS’s Frontline investigative journalism series, which is produced at WGBH in Boston. In her role, she provides editorial vision and produces more than 20 documentaries each year. She started at Frontline in 2007 and assumed her current role in 2014. Under her leadership, Frontline has investigated the impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine, threats to democracy in the United States, the deep historical and regional context behind the Israel-Hamas war, and the world’s response to a global coronavirus pandemic, among myriad topics. She has also guided the addition of artistic components, including the theatrical documentary coverage including 20 Days in Mariupol.

FRONTLINE has won every major award in broadcast journalism under Aronson-Rath’s leadership, including its first Academy Award for the 2023 documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, BAFTA Awards, Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards, and, in 2019, the first Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Gold Baton to be awarded in a decade. FRONTLINE’s reporting has been recognized with myriad journalism honors including Overseas Press Club Awards, Scripps Howard Awards, the Nieman Foundation’s Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Peabody Institutional Award.

Prior to PBS, Raney worked at ABC News and The Wall Street Journal and at a newspaper in Taiwan. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and her master’s from Columbia Journalism School.