Lynne Jackson has worked as a News Producer for the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, as Assistant Editor for Cineaste magazine and co-edited a Wide Angle issue on filmmaker George Stoney. She wrote her dissertation on documentary filmmaker James Blue. She has published in journals such a Film History, Journalism History, Cineaste, and Wide Angle. The hour long documentary "Race or Reason: The Bellport Dilemma," which she co-produced and edited was screened at the 2002 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at the American Museum on Natural History in NYC and is distributed by Filmmakers' Library.