Rory O'Connor
| Rory O'Connor | |
|---|---|
| Born | New York, New York |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | B.A., Boston College; Fellow, Rutgers University; Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | https://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,[1] BBC, NHK, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and numerous other networks. He has been involved in the production of more than two dozen documentaries, and his broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer's Guild Award for Outstanding Documentary, an Orwell Award[2] and two Emmys. He has written several books and blogs for the Huffington Post,[3] AlterNet,[4] Al Jazeera[5] and other news sources.
Career[edit]
During a ten-year stint in print, culminating as Managing Editor of the Boston-area weekly alternative newspaper The Real Paper, O'Connor began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at WGBH-TV in Boston.[6] He later worked as a producer and investigator at WCVB-TV, Boston; a Program Producer at WGBH; Executive Producer at Boston's Neighborhood Network News; segment producer at the PBS NewsHour; and Producer at CBS News, before co-founding the independent international media firm Globalvision.[7]
Writings[edit]
- 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. Search this book on
- Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media (City Lights, 2012). ISBN 0-87286-556-8 Search this book on .
- "Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima" (Sierra Club, Second Edition, 2011). ISBN 978-0140066845 Search this book on .
Filmography[edit]
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[edit]
- ↑ "FRONTLINE/WORLD . India - Hole in the Wall . Reporter's Notebook: Making Connections - PBS". PBS.
- ↑ Past Recipients of the NCTE Orwell Award Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, National Council of Teachers of English
- ↑ "Rory O'Connor". HuffPost.
- ↑ "Stories by Rory O'Connor". Alternet.
- ↑ "Welcome to America, al Jazeera".
- ↑ http://www.globalvision.org/who/whob.html
- ↑ http://www.globalvision.org/about.php
External links[edit]
- Amazon authors page
- Rory O'Connor at the Alda Center for Communicating Science
- Rory O'Connor on IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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