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WATCH: WBGO's panel discussion on the powerful doc 'Caregiving'

WBGO's Doug Doyle moderates a panel discussion about the doc Caregiving at Express Newark. The panelists (from left to right) are Mary Martha Ford, Dr. Lauren Snedeker and Caregiving director and senior producer Chris Durrance.
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WBGO's Doug Doyle moderates a panel discussion about the doc Caregiving at Express Newark. The panelists (from left to right) are Mary Martha Ford, Dr. Lauren Snedeker and Caregiving director and senior producer Chris Durrance.

The documentary Caregiving premieres on 330 PBS stations on June 24. It's streaming now at PBS.org.

WBGO presented a preview screening of the powerful doc followed by a panel discussion at the Community Media Center at Rutgers University's Express Newark.

WBGO's Doug Doyle (moderator) was joined by Caregiving's director and senior producer Chris Durrance, long-time caregiver Mary Martha Ford (sister of Broadway star Billy Porter and Academic Advisor of the Rutgers-Newark School of Arts and Sciences) and Dr. Lauren Snedeker, Assistant Professor, Director of the Aging and Health Certificate Program at Rutgers University School of Social Work.

You can WATCH the emotional panel discussion below:

WBGO would like to thank the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WETA in Washington, D.C. for their support of this project. WBGO also thanks the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for its continued support of WBGO and its programming.

Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.