Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer, born on 30 November 1929 and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She studied education at the University of Arizona, worked for the State Department and as a journalist, and then became a publicist for television companies in New York before turning to educational television in 1961. She is one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop, now Sesame Workshop, and co-created the children's programme Sesame Street, which has been a landmark of educational broadcasting.
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is an American television writer and producer
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was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett
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It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) and was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.
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