A producer of more than 60 documentaries and television news specials, Kim Spencer was a co-founder of Internews Network, an NGO that now supports independent media in 100 countries. He helped pioneer satellite “spacebridges” between the US and Russia in the 1980s, and received a DuPont Columbia award for the PBS documentary The First Fifty Years of US-Soviet relations. Spencer was coordinating producer at the launch of the ABC News weekly magazine show “Prime Time Live” in 1989, producing live reports from multiple countries. He subsequently created the Vis à Vis interactive format for European and North American broadcasters, and produced the DocsPlus human rights series that aired on NDTV India.

In 1999, Spencer was co-founder of Link TV, the independent satellite network devoted to global affairs, and served as its President or senior programming executive for 22 years. At Link TV he helped create the Peabody Award-winning daily news program Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, the documentary series Bridge to Iran, the digital media platform ViewChange and the weekly series Earth Focus, now the longest-running environmental program on American television.