Schechter
then joined the start-up team of CNN and later became a producer
for ABC News 20/20. He produced 50 segments for ABC News, winning
two national Emmys and nominated for two others.
He has produced
and directed many TV specials and documentary films. click here
for a full listing. He
has spoken at scores of universities - from Harvard to Hamline,
from Minnesota to MIT, NYU to Georgia State, Santa Monica to
the University of Hawaii, Princeton to Cornell.
A Cornell
University graduate, he received his Master's degree from the
London School of Economics, and an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg
College. He was a Neiman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, where
he also taught in 1969. After college, he was a full time civil
rights worker and then communications director of the Northern
Student Movement, and worked as a community organizer in a Saul
Alinsky-style War on Poverty program. Then, moving from the
streets to the suites, Schechter served as an assistant to the
Mayor of Detroit in 1966 on a Ford Foundation grant.
Schechter
has reported from 61 countries. He was an adjunct professor
at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University
and taught investigative reporting at the New School. Schechter's
writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines including
the Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Media
Studies Journal, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Z, Mediahannel.org,
OpedNews.com, ZNET, Creative1, Global Research, Alternet and
many others.
