Paula Apsell — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Emmy of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the first science journalist to be so honored
Chief Executive Officer at Leading Edge Productions since 2021
Served as Senior Executive Producer and Director of the WGBH Science Unit for NOVA for 33 years (1985-2018)
Built NOVA into the most popular science series on American television and a highly respected science site online
Served on the board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
Graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in psychology in 1969
Awarded the Vannevar Bush Fellowship in the Public Understanding of Science at MIT (1983-1984)

Biography

Paula Apsell is the Chief Executive Officer at Leading Edge Productions and the Senior Executive Producer Emerita of PBS's NOVA. She served as Senior Executive Producer and Director of the WGBH Science Unit for 33 years, from 1985 to 2018, building NOVA into the most popular science series on American television and a highly respected science site online.