Behind the Scenes
Vicki Hildner
After 19 years and 39 Emmy Awards, CBS4 Special Projects Producer Vicki Hildner has earned the title of a Denver legend and most award-winning journalist in Colorado. Hildner has earned the prestigious Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise four times. She has also won Emmy's in a wide range of categories, including Investigative Reporting, Spot News Reporting, Documentary Production, General News, Series and Feature Reporting and News Writing.
Hildner earned the Peabody Award, broadcasting's equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize, for the documentary "Yellowstone: Four Seasons After Fire." Her documentary "Yellowstone: Ten Years After Fire" is featured at the fire exhibit at Yellowstone National Park. Hildner also has earned the duPont-Columbia Award for her documentary "Erin's Life" which traced the life of a young woman recovering from a traumatic brain injury. She received the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for the program "You Be the Judge."
Vicki Hildner also has multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, Scripps Howard Awards, New York Film Festival Awards, Iris Awards, Colorado Broadcasting Association Awards, and local and national AP Awards.
Though audiences never see Hildner, they do see her work. Currently, she is producing the award-winning series of reports, "Serving with Honor," profiling veterans of the war in Iraq. She has produced a variety of stories on the Columbine tragedy, Klondike and Snow, Colorado history, drug abuse, the criminal justice system, the conjoined twins "Lexi and Syd," homeless people in Denver, wild horses, domestic violence, grizzly bears, and Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Her work has taken her around the world to produce stories on Aztec culture in Mexico, polar bears in the sub-Arctic, Amerasian children in Viet Nam, grey whales in Mexico, adoptions in Romania, the break-up of the Soviet Union, and culture in Japan.
Hildner began her career at WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C. There, she won an Emmy for a project profiling women who were galvanized to public action by a personal tragedy. On behalf of WJLA, she accepted the duPont-Columbia Award for her work on the assignment desk during the crash of an Air Florida jetliner into the Potomac River. She also served on the assignment desk during the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
Hildner has a B.A., Magna cum Laude, from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill. and an M.A.T. from The University of Chicago. She began her career as a high school English teacher.
When she is not at CBS4 News, she spends most of her time with her favorite production -- her daughter.
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