Aileen Leblanc

Aileen Leblanc

История

Aileen LeBlanc is a journalist, producer and director whose work in television, film and public radio has earned more than 40 regional and national awards. Her documentary Local DCB is slated to air on public television stations nationwide in April, 2006. After an initial career in theatre as a lighting designer, LeBlanc began her broadcasting life as a weekend cameraman for the local news at an ABC affiliate in Wilmington NC. Over the next 11 years she worked her way through positions in public service, promotions and creative service and into management at a CBS affiliate. For two years she ran and co-owned an advertising/marketing agency. LeBlanc then applied for a production job in public radio and instead was given her own show Sounds Local which she produced and hosted for seven years. She brought the program to Ohio in 1999 when she was hired at WYSO as News Director. Her public radio work has been heard on NPR, RTE, CBC, Monitor Radio, Pacifica and Voice of America. One report that she did for Sounds Local and NPR was the story of top secret codebreaking operations in Dayton, Ohio during WWII. This led her to get back into video and to the production of her first film

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Aileen Leblanc

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Dayton Codebreakers
Director
In 1942, German U-boats were sending American ships to the the bottom of the Atlantic. The US Navy took the problem to NCR in Dayton. There a lavatory was set up to design and build code breaking machine. This project was top priority and top secret.