With its studio and offices in Rockport, Massachusetts, Yesterday's News completed its first historical documentary in 1990. Since 1994, we have produced sixteen major presentations and dozens of smaller ones for non-profit cultural organizations throughout New England, becoming a non-profit corporation ourselves in January, 1995. Almost sixty percent of our presentations have been designed for the use of historical organizations, including museums, historical societies, and historic homes and sites. Other clients are community and educational organizations, visual and performing artists and state parks. Increasingly, our productions have found a national audience through distribution of our educational programs and national broadcast on The History Channel.

Orientation pieces we've produced are currently shown at eight Massachusetts museums. Our videos have been a component in five museum exhibits, including Boston's Old State House and the Commonwealth Museum, and at least five of our presentations are currently shown in Massachusetts schools, including the Massachusetts College of Art.

Our productions continue to meet industry standards of excellence. Six Yesterday's News presentations have been selected for broadcast nationally on The History Channel's "American Showcase", and others have appeared on Boston's WCVB-TV5 and New Hampshire Public Television (WENH-TV). Four Yesterday's News productions were Telly Award finalists for outstanding non-networking programming: "Northern Forest Heritage Park: Campaign for Heritage" in 1996, "The Orchard House Orientation" in 1997 and both "The Mayflower's Story" and "Visual Gifts: The Sculpture of George Greenamyer" in 1998. In May 1996, after technical and artistic examination by the Federal Review Board, Yesterday's News was placed on the Qualified Producer's List of the Federal Audiovisual Contract Management Office. This qualifies us to bid on future video productions of the federal government, including those for national parks and national historic sites. Yesterday's News shoots on Sony DSR-200 DVCAM digital cameras, and uses Avid's MCXpress

Jim Lowell
Executive producer Jim Lowell has more than twenty-six years experience in the broadcast industry. A 1972 graduate of Emerson College, Jim worked at Boston's WCVB-TV (Channel 5) from 1972 to 1993. His WCVB credentials includes five years directing the "Eye Opener News", a live 90-minute early morning news show, producing and directing segments for "Sunday Open House" and "The Good Day Show", directing the 1976 New England Emmy Award nominated show "Battered Women" from the series "Nightshift", in addition to his work on the "Midday", "Six" and "Eleven" newscasts, and on the community affairs program "Five on Five". His broadcast experience also includes coordinating live telecasts for CBS Sports at Boston Garden and Foxboro Stadium. [e-mail: jim@yesterdaysnews.org]   

Laura Scott Lowell
Laura Scott Lowell brings a broad background of education, history and professional writing to her position as executive producer at Yesterday's News. She received her BA in History from Purdue University, where she was the recipient of the Kneale Literary Award for outstanding historical writing. She earned her MA in history from Indiana University in 1979. Her historical writing credentials include Sudbury: A Pictorial History (1989), numerous articles for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's Lincoln Homework Encyclopedia and by-lined contributions to Harcourt's series of high school history texts. Other writing assignments have included sales training programs, travel articles and user manuals for computer software. She has also served as Archival Consultant to the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts, where she oversaw the indexing of 350 years of historical documents onto a computerized database. [e-mail laura@yesterdaysnews.org]

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