A 12-year veteran of programming and development at Discovery Communications, Jane Latman was elevated to general manager of Destination America in 2015 while also retaining her position as SVP, Development for Investigation Discovery (ID).

At ID, Latman is a driving force behind Discovery Communications’ efforts to become a leader in factual television, overseeing several hundred hours of development for Investigation Discovery each year. With her strategic guidance and creative vision, ID has grown from the #50 network in women in 2008 to the #1 network today, earning its place as one of the nation’s fastest-growing TV networks in the U.S. 

As general manager of Destination America, the only network celebrating the people, places and story of the U.S., Latman oversees the development, production, scheduling, research, marketing, communications and online efforts for this growing brand. 

Latman has worked in non-fiction television for more than 20 years and has been at Discovery Communications since 2003, when she joined the programming department for what was then the Discovery Times Channel. After a stint in development for the Military Channel, Latman was tapped to help transition Discovery Times to Investigation Discovery, giving her the challenging privilege of designing content for the network that would ultimately propel it to growth.  Many of her series have become the network’s top hits, including Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, On the Case with Paula Zahn, A Crime to Remember, Web of Lies, Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals, Vanity Fair Confidential, Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall and Disappeared.  Latman also developed the critically-acclaimed documentary film Into the Abyss and subsequent television series On Death Row with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.

Previously, Latman was general manager at Discovery Life Channel where she championed the network’s transition from Discovery Fit & Health and oversaw a diverse slate of lifestyle and medical programming, including the groundbreaking reality series New Girls on the Block, the first television program to embed with a real group of friends within the transgender community.

Prior to joining Discovery, Latman was a freelance producer, director, and writer for projects that included the award-winning series Nurses for Discovery Health Channel and Understanding Obesity for The Learning Channel’s acclaimed Understanding…series. She also did development work for a variety of ventures including PBS’s miniseries Stealing Time: the Science of Aging. Before launching her television career, Latman was a freelance theater director in Washington, D.C., specializing in the development of new plays.

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