WGAE Nominees Announced

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The Writers Guild of America East has announced the nominees for its guild officers and council seats, two-year terms that run through 2013.

Already two of them are shoe-ins. Michael Winship is running unopposed for president and Bob Schneider is unopposed for secretary-treasurer.

There will be a race for VP between Jeremy Pikser and Matt Nelko.

Candidates for nine open council seats are Robert Levi, Leslie Nipkow, Henry Bean, Tom Jennings, Bernardo Ruiz, Elliott Kalan, Daryn Strauss, Courtney Simon, Bonnie Datt, Michael Kantor, Richard Vetere, Susan Kim, Jenny Lumet, and John Marshall.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.