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Aaron Ernst

New York, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Court TV, Medium, NBC News, Netflix Tudum, PBS, PBS Frontline, HBO, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Tennessean, Knoxville News Sentinel, The Commercial Appeal and
Executive Producer currently at Court TV True Crime Doc Unit.

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Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis - FULL EPISODE | VICE Special Report | HBO

Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis - FULL EPISODE | VICE Special Report | HBO

VICE on HBO looks at factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts made by then-Treasury Secr…

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Explained | Netflix Official Site

Explained | Netflix Official Site

How do cults lure people in and exert control? Learn about a cult's telltale signs, and how loneliness and li…

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VICE - VICE Special Report: The Future of Work

VICE - VICE Special Report: The Future of Work

The next Industrial Revolution is upon us, and scientists, entrepreneurs and policymakers are warning of an i…

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Losers | Netflix Official Site

Losers | Netflix Official Site

Dealing with winning is easy. But coping with losing takes guts. Take a trip inside the minds of fierce compe…

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Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

Watch full-length episodes of PBS documentary series FRONTLINE for free. Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown - An…

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How my Vanderbilt professor prepared me for work and life challenges Original

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By Aaron Ernst
| The Tennessean Verified
Professor Jordan was my mainstay in difficult times. His messages and responses would always be exactly what I needed to refocus my mind and career. Aaron Ernst Guest columnist Aaron Ernst graduated Vanderbilt University in 2011 with a degree in engineering science and has worked for start-ups in the supply chain, social media and sports betting industries. Benjamin Thomas Jordan, Jr., who died a year ago on Feb. 21, was a professor to thousands and an adviser to hundreds.
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Nicholas Goldberg: Tom Lehrer (here, take) vs Donald Trump (gimme gimme)

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By Aaron Ernst, Ruth Ann Dailey Verified
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Verified
What's the difference between songwriter-satirist Tom Lehrer and narcissist ex-president Donald Trump? Many people today don't remember Tom Lehrer. He wrote songs that took on social and political issues in the 1950s and 1960s. His sardonic, black-humor parodies made fun of nuclear war, the Boy Scouts, Catholicism, bigotry, air pollution, cannibalism, masochism and math, to name just a few of his subjects.
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Alaska's Controversial Pebble Mine Was Dead. Not Anymore.

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By Aaron Ernst
| PBS Frontline Verified
The Bristol Bay region in southwest Alaska is home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run, a resource that brings in $1.5 billion annually and provides a vital food source for thousands of Alaska Native residents who live there. It’s also home to a vast copper and gold deposit worth an estimated $500 billion, known as the Pebble Deposit.
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Interview

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

At its core, journalism is a meritocracy. Know your story and characters inside-out and everything will fall into place.

Awards

National Headliner Award

2015 - Environmental Reporting

Award for in-depth environmental reporting on the danger of transporting Bakken crude oil by rail.

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Peabody Award

2009 - General

ROLE: Associate Producer Bernard L. Madoff and his colossal Ponzi scheme cost investors $65 billion and dominated the news for months, but few fully understood the inner workings, nor the magnitude, of this epic fraud. Veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith went behind the headlines and, through exclusive interviews with those closest to the Madoff operation, made sense for us of a complicated deception that lasted longer, reached wider, and cut deeper than any business scandal in history. Smith looked at Madoff’s first years in business, starting in the early 1960s, his brushes with the SEC in the 1990s, and how the recent financial meltdown finally became Madoff’s undoing. For in-depth reporting that produced interviews no one else got, and for making sense of this monumental criminal enterprise, FRONTLINE: The Madoff Affair receives a Peabody Award.

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