Margie peters tv producer biography
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Margie Veaner Peters
After graduating from Northeastern’s College of Education in 1970, Margie worked in the Media and Educational Resources Library at Northeastern, where she’d also been employed as an undergraduate during co-op.
Margie peters tv producer biography
In the summer of 1971, Margie became a stay-at-home mom to Shawn, her son with Gil and soon after, moved to Hull, Mass.
A few years later, Fred Turner (also a News alum) recommended Margie for the position of Hull correspondent to the Quincy Patriot Ledger where he served as an editor.
Margie used the journalistic skills she learned at the News for a year or two until she began devoting her free time to sending out unsolicited scripts and story ideas to various television shows.
Eventually, after receiving back several unopened envelopes with accompanying rejection letters, Margie had the good fortune of having one of her stories read by a television producer who said he thought she could have a career writing for television.
For 15 years Margie