Amy Herdy is a film producer. She won a 2018

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

, for her

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fi ...

documentary, “The Bleeding Edge”.

Life

She was a crime reporter at ''The St. Petersburg Times'', and ''The Denver Post''. She was an investigative producer at

KUSA-TV KUSA (channel 9) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD (channel 20). Both stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's S ...

. From 2006 - 2010 she served as an instructor for the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder Herdy has served as a producer, researcher, and investigator on the documentaries ''

The Hunting Ground ''The Hunting Ground'' is a 2015 American documentary film about the incidence of sexual assault on college campuses in the United States and the reported failure of college administrations to deal with it adequately. Written and directed by K ...

'' (2015), ''

The Bleeding Edge ''The Bleeding Edge'' is a 2018 Netflix original documentary film that investigates the $400 billion medical device industry. Written and directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy, it premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film F ...

'', (2018), '' On the Record'' (2020), and '' Allen v. Farrow'' (2021), all directed by

Kirby Dick Kirby Bryan Dick (born August 23, 1952) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best known for directing documentary films. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for directing ''Twist of Fait ...

and

Amy Ziering Amy Ziering (born 1962 in Massachusetts) is an American film producer and director. Mostly known for her work in documentary films, she is a regular collaborator of director Kirby Dick; they co-directed 2002's ''Derrida'' and 2020's '' On the Re ...

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women journalists 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American women writers The Denver Post people George Polk Award recipients American documentary film producers American women documentary filmmakers {{US-journalist-20thC-stub