Katrina Vanden Heuvel & Jeff Daniels Talk TELEVISION EVENT on SOUNDS with Tom Needham

SOUNDS with Tom Needham

TELEVISION EVENT is a feature documentary about how THE DAY AFTER (1983), a TV movie which vividly imagined nuclear war in the US heartland, moved a divided nation and its president to confront this disturbing global issue.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019.

She writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.

A frequent commentator on US and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Vanden Heuvel is also the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.

Vanden Heuvel has been recognized for her journalism and public service by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Community Change, the Norman Mailer Center, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, American Rights at Work, Progressive Congress, and more. During her tenure, The Nation’s journalism has been recognized for excellence by the National Magazine Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Maggie Awards, GLAAD, and the National Association of Black Journalists, among others.

Vanden Heuvel serves on the boards of the Progressive Caucus Center, the Institute for Policy Studies, Type Media Center, the Sidney Hillman Media Foundation, the American Committee for US-Russian Accord, Inequality Media, Brave New Films, the Osborne Association, Research to Prevent Blindness, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association.

Born and raised in New York, Jeff Daniels is a multi-award winning independent filmmaker specializing in feature-length documentaries. For 20 years he has developed, shot and edited observational, investigative and authored documentaries for television and theatrical release. Based permanently in Melbourne, Australia, Jeff is currently producing a number of feature-length and short documentary films as well as promotional projects for non-profits. Having worked for 15 years as a high school teacher and visiting university lecturer, Jeff also facilitates mentoring and educational opportunities for teens and early-career practitioners entering the film industry.