Martha Spanninger is a Peabody award-winning documentary producer and broadcast journalist with more than twenty-five years of experience.  Most recently she was Executive Producer at Starfish Media Group, where she joined Soledad O’Brien to help with the launch of her production company.  Spanninger developed, staffed, and oversaw editorial and production of 6 broadcast documentaries and dozens of segments of digital content for CNN, Al Jazeera America, HBO, Cover Girl, AARP and other outlets. “The War Comes Home” and “Black and Blue” premiered on CNN in 2014.   Trailer: The War Comes Home.  Her career has included assignments with PBS ("Now on PBS"), ABC ("20/20"), NBC ("Dateline"), CBS ("CBS Reports" "West 57th") & MTV, and numerous independent projects.  From 2005 - 2008 she served as the Senior Supervising Producer of NOW on PBS, the weekly public affairs broadcast created by Bill Moyers.   She has had the good fortune to collaborate with independent producer/directors and major broadcast, cable and public media talent including Ed Bradley, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Andy Lack, Bill Moyers, Soledad O’Brien, Jane Pauley, Morley Safer, Diane Sawyer, Howard Stringer, Meredith Vieira, and Jeff Zucker.  Spanninger is a graduate of Swarthmore College where she has served on the Board of Managers and the advisory boards of War News Radio and Life Long Learning.