Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attended Harvard College and has worked in journalism, politics, film and video for over 40 years. He was a founder of The Center for New Television and president of Independent Programming Associates (IPA), a post-production facility in Chicago responsible for finishing over 150 documentaries, independent films and TV series. His documentary work has taken him to Siberia to produce "To Save a Crane" for The New Explorers with Bill Kurtis (PBS); Saudia Arabia in 2002 for "Saudi Arabia: A Complicated Ally" (A & E); and around the country producing three Presidential Election Specials (PBS), True Life Video Stories (DVD), and The Santa Tapes (video short). Under the pseudonym Stump Connolly, chief political correspondent of The Week Behind, Jacobs has also covered six presidential campaigns and authored three books on the 1996, 2004 and 2008 presidential races. His story collection "Famous Ski Hills in Wisconsin (and other delusions of grandeur)" was named Book of the Year in 2014 by the Chicago Writers Association.