Danny Schechter danny@mediachannel.org Danny Schechter, a 1978 Nieman fellow, is a journalist, author, television producer and independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about media issues. He is currently the executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world’s largest online media issues online network, and recipient of many awards including the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism. His latest film is “IN DEBT WE TRUST: America Before The Bubble Bursts,” an Schechter is co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York–based television and film production company now in its 18th year. He founded and execproduced the series “South Africa Now” and co-produced “Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television.” He has specialized in investigative reporting and programming about the interrelationship between human rights, journalism, popular music and society. He is the author of eight books, including The Death of the Media (Melville Press); When News Lies: Media Complicity and the Iraq War (Select Books); Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq (Prometheus Books, October 2003); Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); The More You Watch, The Less You Know (Seven Stories Press) and News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics, 1960–2000 (Akashic Books and Electron Press). A Cornell University graduate, he received his Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg College. After college, he was a full-time civil rights worker and then communications director of the Northern Student Movement, and worked as a community organizer in a Saul Alinsky–style War on Poverty program. Then, moving from the streets to the suites, Schechter served as an assistant to the mayor of Detroit in 1966 on a Ford Foundation grant. Schechter has reported from 51 countries and lectured at scores of schools and universities, from Harvard to Hamline, from Minnesota to MIT, NYU to Georgia State, Santa Monica to the University of Hawaii, Princeton to Cornell. |
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