Linda Hirsch is a renowned documentary film producer for Rain Media in New York City, where she has been working on groundbreaking films for FRONTLINE for the past five years.
Throughout her illustrious career, Hirsch has produced numerous award-winning documentaries, including Money, Power, Wall Street and The Untouchables on the Wall Street meltdown of 2008, United States of Secrets (Part 2) on the Snowden revelations, and films on ISIS and the wars in Iraq and Syria, such as The Rise of ISIS, Obama at War, and Inside Assad's Syria.
These documentaries have earned multiple accolades, including Emmy Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, the George Polk Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award.
Prior to joining Rain Media, Hirsch spent fifteen years working on news documentaries with Peter Jennings at ABC's Peter Jennings Reporting and then at Peter Jennings Productions and The Documentary Group.
During her time at The Documentary Group, she produced numerous award-winning documentaries, including America in Primetime, a four-hour series for PBS about the history of scripted television, Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the Public Health, an investigation of the pharmaceutical industry, The Gun Fight, an investigation of the National Rifle Association, and the Emmy-Award winning episode of The Century series In Search of the Promised Land, about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Memphis Sanitation Strike.
Hirsch also produced the two-hour ABC News special Earth 2100 in 2010, which explored the possible convergence of environmental threats in the next century.
Throughout her long career, Hirsch has collaborated with FRONTLINE correspondent and producer Martin Smith on numerous documentaries, including Peter Jennings Reporting: Rage & Betrayal: The Lives of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, and Pot of Gold, about the domestic marijuana business.
Hirsch graduated from Wellesley College and received a master's degree in English Literature from Columbia University. She currently resides in New York City.
