Rory O'Connor (filmmaker)
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Rory O’Connor is an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker whose work centers on the nexus of media and politics. He is co-founder and president of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and Board Chair of The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit foundation. His films and television programs have aired on PBS, BBC, NHK, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and numerous other leading international broadcast networks. His broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer's Guild Award, a George Orwell Award and two Emmys, among many awards. He has written three books, including "Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima" (Sierra Club Books, Second Edition, 2011), "Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio" (AlterNet Books, 2008), and, most recently, "Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media" (City Lights, 2012), and also blogs for the Huffington Post, AlterNet, Salon and other prominent Internet news sites and posts regularly at his own "Media Is A Plural' blog, accessible at www.roryoconnor.org.[1]
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[edit] Career
O'Connor began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at WGBH-TV in Boston.[2]
He is the recipient of several awards, including the George Polk Award, the Writer's Guild and the George Orwell Award.[3]
[edit] Writings
- Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives. AlterNet Books. June 1, 2008. pp. 226. ISBN 978-0975272435.
- Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media (City Lights, 2012). ISBN 0872865568, ISBN 9780872865563.
[edit] Filmography
- 2009: Executive Producer - Barack Obama: People’s President, Independent Documentary
- 2008: Executive Producer - Viva Madiba, Independent Documentary
- 2007: Executive Producer - Frontrunner, Independent Documentary
- 2006: Executive Producer - 9/11: Press for Truth, Independent Documentary
- 2006: Executive-in-Charge-of-Production - In Debt We Trust, Independent Documentary
- 2005: Executive Producer - WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, Independent Documentary
- 2003: Co-Director, Co-Producer, Writer - The Hole in the Wall, Independent Documentary
- 2001: Co-Director, Co-Producer, Writer - Voices of the Poor, Independent Documentary
- 2000: Co-Director, Executive Producer - 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
- 1996: Producer, Writer - 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: Producer, Writer - No Safe Asylum, WCVB-TV Documentary
