Paula Apsell Biography

Apsell got her start in broadcasting at WGBH Boston where she was hired fresh out of Brandeis University to type the public broadcaster's daily television program logs - a job that Apsell notes is now mercifully automated. She produced Someone I Once Knew an award-winning documentary that essentially broke the story on Alzheimer's disease showing that dementia is a pathology not an inevitable product of old age. Apsell then spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. In 1985 she was asked to take over the reins at NOVA where she became the Senior Executive Producer and Director of the WGBH Science Unit. As well as overseeing the production of NOVA documentaries and miniseries for television she has directed the series' diversification into other media-most notably online where is the most-visited site on PBS.org. can also be found in classrooms nationwide where it is the most widely used video resource among high school science teachers.

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