{"id":9013,"date":"2016-12-06T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:43:11","slug":"com-alum-inducted-into-national-academy-of-television-arts-and-sciences-silver-circle","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/com-alum-inducted-into-national-academy-of-television-arts-and-sciences-silver-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"COM Alum Inducted into National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences\u2019 Silver Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9014\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2016\/12\/Silver_Circle_2016\u00a9Eric_Antoniou_179-636x424.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo provided by WGBH\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2016\/12\/Silver_Circle_2016\u00a9Eric_Antoniou_179-636x424.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2016\/12\/Silver_Circle_2016\u00a9Eric_Antoniou_179-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2016\/12\/Silver_Circle_2016\u00a9Eric_Antoniou_179-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2016\/12\/Silver_Circle_2016\u00a9Eric_Antoniou_179.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided by WGBH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Linda Polach (COM \u201978), WGBH News\u2019 award-winning Executive Managing Editor, was recently honored with the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Boston\/New England Chapter. The NATAS Silver Circle Awards recognizes veteran television professionals who have made significant contributions to their field for 25 years or longer.<\/p>\n<p>After beginning her career as a high school teacher, Polach transitioned to journalism. While studying at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/ana-maria-romay\">COM<\/a> she took a job at Boston\u2019s WCVB-TV (Channel 5) leading to a 29-year tenure at the station. She served as news producer, executive producer and director of special projects, including live Boston Marathon coverage, during her time at WCVB. She received numerous accolades including severals Emmys, one in recognition of her coverage of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Polach joined WGBH in 2007 as the executive producer of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/news.wgbh.org\/greater-boston\">Greater Boston with Emily Rooney<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/news.wgbh.org\/beat-the-press\">Beat the Press<\/a>\u201d for which she won a national Richards Award for Media Criticism in 2014. Polach has produced coverage for many of the major political debates, primaries and major party conventions. She also was influentional in the successful launch of the WGBH Studio at the Boston Public Library. \u201cThroughout nearly 40 years working in local news, Linda has established herself not just as a leader in our newsroom, but also in our community at large,\u201d said Phil Redo, WGBH General Manager for Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Polach accepted her award at the gala ceremony on Wednesday, November 30<sup>th<\/sup> at the Seaport Boston Hotel.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by: Tatiana M.R. Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/academics\/what-we-do\/journalism\/\">Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Polach (COM \u201978), WGBH News\u2019 award-winning Executive Managing Editor, was recently honored with the Silver Circle Award from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12163,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[962,3,2],"tags":[6,1261,386,488],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/9013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9018,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/9013\/revisions\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}