Michael Kirk is an award winning documentary

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 filmmaker and partial creator of the PBS show Frontline. He has produced such documentaries as "Inside the Meltdown," about the 2008 financial crisis, "Bush's War," about the Iraq War under George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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, and "The Way the Music Died," about the dire straights of the record industry.

Kirk has won every major award in journalism, including the Peabody Award

Peabody Award

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, duPont-Columbia Award, nine Emmys and six Writers Guild of America

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 awards. Mr. Kirk also owns a production company, the Kirk Documentary Group, in Brookline

Brookline, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

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. Kirk is also a former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University

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Kirk is a 1965 graduate of Bishop Kelly High School

Bishop Kelly High School

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 in Boise

Boise, Idaho

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, Idaho

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, and attended the University of Idaho

University of Idaho

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 in Moscow

Moscow, Idaho

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, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma

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 fraternity (Gamma Theta chapter). Kirk graduated in 1971 with a degree in communication and then worked for KUID-TV, the campus' PBS

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station. He was inducted into the UI Alumni Association Hall of Fame in 2000.

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