John Sharify Email & Phone Number

John Sharify lives and breathes storytelling and is grateful to those willing to share their stories. One of the most honored broadcast journalists in the country, Sharify is a 79-time Emmy award winner. He has been honored with the 2021 DuPont Columbia award for his documentary 'Bob's Choice'. The Dupont is the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.From 2022-2024, John Sharify was the Atwood Chair in Journalism and Public Communications at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. He is currently a storytelling coach for reporters at Scripps Media. Sharify has been honored with nine National Edward R. Murrow awards, including four National Murrow awards for Writing. His latest National Murrow for Writing was in 2020. In June 2018, Sharify was inducted into the Silver Circle by the Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.  The honor goes to individuals who’ve made significant contributions to the broadcast industry.  John Sharify was selected as the 2019 and the 2015 National Press Photographer Association  (NPPA) Reporter of the Year (ROY) for his work at KING 5 News.  He was runner up for the national honor in 2013 and 2017.For more than a dozen years, Sharify was General Manager of Seattle Colleges Cable Television (SCCTV) and from 2011 to 2020, he was also the GM of Seattle Community Media (SCM), the city of Seattle’s public access television station.  In 2021, he was the NW Regional Communications Manager for Western Governors University - WGU. Sharify’s passion for storytelling has taken him around the world as he presents workshops in newsrooms on the craft of video storytelling.  His 2010 documentary about the holocaust, “The Boys of Terezin,” has been shown in film festivals in Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, West Palm, Miami, New Jersey and Seattle. His documentary “Hear Our Story Now”, which he produced and wrote in 2018, chronicles two decades of work created by a Seattle organization called Music or Remembrance (MOR). Sharify is a proud graduate of Princeton University.  He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in film directing from Columbia University where he studied under Oscar  winning film director Milos Forman. Sharify is honored to have presented a Ted Talk in 2012 about his National Murrow award winning documentary called “Climb of a Lifetime.” His latest award winning documentary, ‘Bob’s Choice’ has nearly eight hundred thousand views on YouTube. John Sharify and Joseph Huerta chronicled Bob Fuller’s last 68 days of life in this ‘death with dignity’ documentary.

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