Rory O'Connor (filmmaker)

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For other people named Rory O'Connor, see Rory O'Connor (disambiguation).
Rory O'Connor
Born
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.A., Boston College; Fellow, Rutgers University; Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/20130305030308/http://roryoconnor.org/

Rory O'Connor is a journalist, author, educator, and documentary filmmaker. He is co-founder and president of the Globalvision Corporation, and board chair of the Global Center, an affiliated non-profit foundation. His films and television programs have aired on PBS,

Huffington Post,[3] AlterNet,[4] Al Jazeera[5]
and other news sources.

Career

During a ten-year stint in print, culminating as Managing Editor of the Boston-area weekly alternative newspaper

Neighborhood Network News; segment producer at the PBS NewsHour; and Producer at CBS News, before co-founding the independent international media firm Globalvision.[7]

O'Connor and

public television stations where it was carried in over 150 markets. Crew for South Africa Now were banned from South Africa itself, which made production more difficult.[9]

Schechter and O'Connor later co-produced Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television, which aired on American public TV stations and in over 60 countries from 1992 to 1996.[10]

Awards and honors

In 1990, South Africa Now, a public television newsmagazine produced by Globalvision under O'Connor’s presidency, won the George Polk Award for broadcast journalism.[11][12][13]

Books

  • Aaron Cutler (June 1, 2008). Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives. AlterNet Books. pp. 226.
    ISBN 978-0-9752724-3-5
    .
  • Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media (
    ISBN 0-87286-556-8
  • "Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima" (Sierra Club, Second Edition, 2011).
    ISBN 978-0140066845

Filmography

2016: Executive Producer, Editorial Consultant "Dead Reckoning," PBS Documentary

2015: Executive Producer “America's Surveillance State,” Independent Documentary

2014: Executive Producer “Who Rules America?” Independent Documentary

2011: Producer, Executive Producer “The Harvest (La Cosecha),” Independent Documentary produced with ShineGlobal

2010: Director, Writer, Co-Producer “The Battle of Durban II: Israel, Palestine and the United Nations,” Independent Documentary produced with Second Generation Films

2010: Executive Producer “Plunder: The Crime of Our Time,” Independent Documentary

2009: Executive Producer “Barack Obama: People's President,” Independent Documentary with Videovision

2008: Executive Producer “Viva Madiba,” Independent Documentary with Videovision

2007: Executive Producer “Frontrunner: The Afghan Woman Who Surprised the World,” Independent Documentary

2006: Executive Producer “911: Press for Truth,” Independent Documentary

2006: Executive-in-Charge-of-Production “In Debt We Trust,” Independent Documentary

2004: Executive Producer “WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception,” Independent Documentary

2003: Co-director, Co-Producer, Writer “The Hole in the Wall,” Independent Documentary

2001: Director, Producer, Writer “Voices of the Poor,” Independent Documentary

2000: Executive-in-Charge-of-Production “Hear Our Voices: The Poor on Poverty,” Global Links TV Documentary

2000: Executive Producer “Falun Gong's Challenge to China,” Independent Documentary

1999: Director, Writer “Richard Speck: Born To Raise Hell,” Court TV Documentary

1999: Story Developer “The Trial of the Chicago 8,” Court TV Documentary

1999: Executive Producer, Writer “Globalization and Human Rights,” PBS Documentary

1998: Director, Producer, Writer “China: Change and Challenge,” Global Links TV Documentary

1998: Executive Producer "A Hero for All,"Independent Documentary with Videovision

1996: Producer “Yellow Wasps: Anatomy Of a War Crime,” Independent Documentary

1994: Executive Producer, Writer “Countdown to Freedom,” Independent Documentary

1993: Director, Producer, Writer “The Arming of Saudi Arabia,” PBS Frontline Documentary

1992: Director, Producer, Writer “BCCI: The Bank of Crooks and Criminals,” PBS Frontline Documentary

1992: Director, Producer, Writer “The Resurrection of Reverend Moon,” PBS Frontline Documentary

1992: Executive Producer “Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy,” Warner Bros. Documentary

1991: Senior Producer "Mandela in America," Time-Warner Documentary

1990: Executive Producer “Nelson Mandela: Free At Last,” PBS Documentary

1990: Producer,Writer “No Place Like Home,” WCVB-TV Documentary

1986: Producer, Writer “Mafia On Trial,” WCVB-TV Documentary

1985: Writer, Producer “No Safe Asylum,” WCVB-TV Documentary[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "FRONTLINE/WORLD . India - Hole in the Wall . Reporter's Notebook: Making Connections - PBS". PBS.
  2. ^ Past Recipients of the NCTE Orwell Award Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, National Council of Teachers of English
  3. ^ "Rory O'Connor". HuffPost.
  4. ^ "Stories by Rory O'Connor". Alternet.
  5. ^ "Welcome to America, al Jazeera".
  6. ^ http://www.globalvision.org/who/whob.html
  7. ^ http://www.globalvision.org/about.php
  8. ISBN 9781609802639
    .
  9. ^ "RIP Danny Schechter: Media Pioneer Who Covered Apartheid South Africa, Occupy & Kissinger". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  10. ^ Hazen, Don (19 March 2015). "Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, Dies in NYC at 72". Alternet.org. AlterNet. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  11. ^ Bernstein, Sharon (1991-04-24). "'South Africa Now' Ends U.S. Run". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  12. ^ "'South Africa Now' May Air In South Africa". Variety. 1991-04-29. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  13. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2024-02-21.

External links
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rory_O%27Connor_(filmmaker)&oldid=1209869441"