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Educated at Cornell and the London School of Economics where he received his Master's Degree, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University. Among the first producers hired at the fledgling CNN, Schechter later logged eight years as a producer for ABC's 20/20.

Today he is executive producer at Globalvision, the independent New York-based television production company he co-founded in 1988. With Globalvision, Schechter has produced two award-winning weekly television news magazines. For 156 weeks, South Africa Now chronicled the social, political and economic changes that culminated in the dismantling of apartheid. For five seasons, Rights and Wrongs: Human Rights Television presented the many faces of the global struggle for human rights to viewers around the world, including the United States where the program aired on 150 public television stations and cable outlets.

Schechter has reported from 45 countries, written for leading publications and lectured at many schools and universities on topics including human rights, self-determination, national policy and the role of media in a democracy. This is his first book.