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DANNY SCHECHTER
"The News Dissector"
Television Producer ,
Independent
Filmmaker ,
Author,
Blogger ,
Media Critic
Most Recently Creator of:
PLUNDER - THE CRIME OF OUR
TIME
Producer / Director - Multi
Media Documentary:
&
Author:
THE CRIME OF OUR TIME
Companion Book
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Danny Schechter: Investigative
Journalist/producer/director Danny Schechter is a
television producer and
independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about
media issues. He is the
author of "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception"
(Prometheus), "Media Wars: News
after 9-11" (Roman & Littlefield), "Falun Gong's
Challenge to China" (Akashic
Books), "The More You Watch, The Less You Know"
(Seven Stories Press) and "News
Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics"
(Electron Press/ Akashic Books). He is
the executive editor of the Mediachannel.org,
the world's largest online media
issues network. He has produced and directed many
TV specials and films,
including "We are Family" (2002), "Counting On Democracy"
(2002) "Falun Gong's
Challenge to China" (2000); A Hero for All: Nelson Mandela's
Farewell (l999);
Sowing Seeds/Reeping Peace: The World of Seeds of Peace (1996);
Prisoners of Hope:Robben Island Reunion (1995, co-directed by Barbara Kopple);
Countdown to
Freedom: Ten Days that Changed South Africa (1994), narrated by
James Earl Jones
and Alfre Woodard; Sarajevo Ground Zero (1993); The Living
Canvas (1992),
narrated by Billy Dee Williams; Beyond JFK: The Question of
Conspiracy (1992),
co-directed with Barbara Kopple; Give Peace a Chance (1991);
Mandela in America
(1990), The Making of Sun City (1987); and Student Power
(1968). Schechter is
co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New
York-based television
and film production company now in its 13th year, where he
produced 156 editions
of the award-winning series South Africa Now, co-produced
Rights & Wrongs: Human
Rights Television with Charlayne Hunter-Gault. His most
recent human rights
special, "Globalization and Human Rights was co produced
with Rory O'Connor and
shown nationally on PBS. A Cornell University graduate,
he received his Master's
degree from the London School of Economics, and an
honorary doctorate from
Fitchburg College. He was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism
at Harvard, where he
also taught in 1969. After college, he was a full time civil rights
worker and
then communications director of the Northern Student Movement,
worked as a
community organizer in a Saul Alinsky-style War on Poverty program,
and, moving
from the streets to the suites, served as an assistant to the Mayor of
Detroit
in 1966 on a Ford Foundation grant. Schechter's professional journalism
career
began in 1970, when he was named news director, principal newscaster,
and "News
Dissector" at WBCN-FM in Boston, where he was hailed as a radio
innovator and
won many industry honors, including two Major Armstrong Awards.
His television
producing career was launched with the syndicated Joe Oteri Show,
which won the
New England Emmy and a NAPTE IRIS award in 1979. In l980, he
created and
produced the nation's first live late-night entertainment-oriented TV
show, Five
All Night, Live All Night at WCVB in Boston. Schechter left Boston to
join the
staff at CNN as a producer based in Atlanta. He then moved to ABC as a
producer
for 20/20, where during his eight years he won two National News Emmys.
Schechter has reported from 47 countries and lectured at many schools and
universities. He was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism
at
Columbia University. Schechter's writing has appeared in leading newspapers
and
magazines including the The Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia
Journalism
Review, Media Studies Journal, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Tikkun, Z, and
many others.
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