About Us
Production Team
Scott Newell
A veteran television producer who has covered some of the biggest national stories of the last two decades, Scott Newell brings a varied and rich background to the Collins Learning project. The winner of 17 EMMY® awards, Scott has produced and/or reported for a variety of network TV programming outlets, including NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Fox Broadcasting, truTV, A&E, The Discovery Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, TLC, The Weather Channel, DIY Network and WEtv. Scott's work has appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show on CBS, Headliners and Legends on MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, Dateline, ABC World News, 20/20, Forensic Files, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, Entertainment Tonight, Cool Tools and Inside Edition.
Lydia Esparra
Lydia Esparra is an EMMY® award-winning anchor and reporter for WOIO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, OH, and for MYNetworkTV affiliate WUAB-TV. Lydia also anchored and reported on Cleveland's WJW-TV and WKYC-TV. She began her career in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market and was an anchor and reporter at WFXL in Albany, Georgia, and WTVM in Columbus, Georgia.
Lydia's work has been seen on NBC's Today Show and Entertainment Tonight. She's a graduate of The Ohio State University. Lydia currently serves as an Honorary Board Member for the Arc of Greater Cleveland, a chapter of the world’s largest grassroots organization of and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Stephen R. Campanella
Stephen R. Campanella is an EMMY® award winning producer who has produced hundreds of episodes of nationally televised programs, network specials, feature films, commercials and public service announcements including the commercials "You Can Be Anything You Want," “Hey Mom,” PSA “Dancing Wheels” with Christopher Reeves, “A Time to Celebrate” with Hal Holbrook, celebrating Ohio’s Bicentennial as well as the HGTV’s series “Room by Room," on which he was Executive Producer.
For four years Stephen was Vice President of Broadcast and Entertainment for Beachwood Studios in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1995 he founded BELLTOWER Productions, Inc. Stephen is a member of both the Producers Guild of America and the National Academy Television of Arts and Sciences.
* Photos by Stephen R. Campanella
