Marcia Franklin has been a producer and host at Idaho Public Television since 1990. She is currently the lead producer for “createid,” the station’s program covering the arts in Idaho. For more than 25 years, she was the producer and host of Dialogue, a statewide conversation program focusing on the humanities. She also produces programs for the station’s history and outdoors series.
Marcia has also produced special documentaries, including “Barbara Morgan: No Limits,” “Hearts and Minds: Teens and Mental Illness,” and “The Color of Conscience.” Her programs have garnered honors, including a George Foster Peabody Award, the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, and eight regional Emmy Awards.
In 2003, Marcia traveled around Iran for six weeks on a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism. She produced, filmed and edited a documentary about the environmental movement in that country. She revisited the country in 2005.
Marcia is a founding board member of the non-partisan City Club of Boise and a past president of that organization. For many years, she was a “Big Sister” in Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and is still close to her “little sister.” She’s a frequent moderator at events around the state.
Prior to taking her position at IdahoPTV, Marcia worked as a general assignment reporter at KIFI-TV in Idaho Falls and was the assistant to the news director at KQED-TV in San Francisco. A native of Washington, D.C., she has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She enjoys reading, cycling, traveling and cats.