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2017 SympOSium
Gus Chambers, Panel Speaker, Producer/Director
Following his rst career in solid waste management, Chambers made a lateral move into television. For over thirty years he has directed the University of Montana’s television needs, produced dozens of documentaries for Montana PBS and continues to dabble in public radio.
Paul Zalis, Panel Speaker, Writer/Producer
Paul Zalis is a writer and writer/producer of public television historical documentaries and literary public radio series. He wrote and co-produced Montana PBS documentaries For is and Future Generations and Glacier Park’s Night of the Grizzlies. He is a graduate of Drew University and the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
He has worked for numerous newspapers and wire services, taught college and post-graduate writing and journalism courses, written symposiums sponsored by the Lila Wallace Foundation, and taught English for the Iran-American Society in Tehran, Iran.
He was the co-host and co-producer of Big Sky Radio, a library-radio partnership that explored Montana literature, and executive producer of StoryLines America, an itinerant NEH/American Library Association public radio partnership that explored the best of regional literature in the northwest, southwest, Midwest, northeast and southeast.
He is also the author of Who is the River—Getting Lost and Found in the Amazon and Other Places (Atheneum, 1986).
Location scout Jim Combs (r) helps producer Gus Chambers identify landmarks that reveal where C.M. Russell composed some of his paintings.
Credit: Paul Zalis