Danny Schechter
Journalist, Author, Film Producer, Director
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Schechter’s media experience in the major U.S. corporate media is considerable. His career began as the “News Dissector” at Boston radio station WBCN. Later, Schechter was a producer for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. He produced 50 segments for ABC and won two national Emmy Awards and was nominated for two others. His work has also been honored with the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Schechter joined the start-up staff at CNN as a producer based in Atlanta. In all, Schechter has reported from 49 countries.
Schechter helped found, and serve as the executive producer of, Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company. He founded and executive-produced the series “South Africa Now” and co-produced “Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television”. His work specializes in investigative journalism and producing programming about the interface between human rights, journalism, popular music and society.
Schechter is also the executive editor of MediaChannel.org, for which he is the “blogger-in-chief” and writes a nearly-3000-word daily blog entry on media and society. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is “Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception” (Prometheus).
