Visited April 24, 2007
Danny Schechter is a television producer and independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about media issues. He is the author of Falun Gong's Challenge to China, The More You Watch, The Less You Know and News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics. He is the co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company and executive editor of the MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media issues network.
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.
