Michael Kirk

Michael John Kirk (born November 6, 1947) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and has produced more than 200 national television programs. A former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, Kirk was the senior producer of FRONTLINE from the series’ inception in 1983 until the fall of 1987, when he created his own production company, Kirk Documentary Group, based in Boston.

Kirk has won every major award in broadcast journalism, including four Peabody Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, fourteen Emmy Awards, two George Polk Awards, and ten Writers Guild of America Awards.

Early life

Kirk born in Denver later moved to Boise, Idaho where he grew up and attended Bishop Kelly High School. He graduated from the University of Idaho in 1971 with a degree in communications. The university named an award after Kirk, “The Michael Kirk Award”, given annually to a student in broadcast journalism.

Career

His most recent FRONTLINE productions include Secrets, Politics and Torture, the secret history of the CIA’s controversial “enhanced interrogation” methods; Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA, an investigation into the NRA, its political evolution and influence, and how it has consistently succeeded in defeating new gun control legislation; Losing Iraq, the 90 minute film traces the U.S. role in the Iraq war from the 2003 invasion to the violent rise of the radical Jihadist group Isis; United States of Secrets, a two-hour report that delves inside Washington, DC and the NSA, piecing together the secret history of the unprecedented surveillance program that began in the wake of September 11, 2001 and continues today- even after the revelations of its existence by Edward Snowden. The Baltimore Sun described the film as “simply the best and most important work of nonfiction television I’ve seen this year.” United States of Secrets won two Emmy Awards; a Peabody Award; a duPont-Columbia Award; and a Writers Guild of America Award.

Michael Kirk (butcher)

Michael Kirk is a small family firm of butchers in Wolverhampton, England, established in 1934, which has won several prizes for their pies, including National Pork Pie Champion, 2005, and for their sausages.

Owner Michael Bachyk says of his pork pies:

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