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Documentary filmmaker and journalist Rory O'Connor is also co-founder
and president of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc. and
The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit educational foundation.
He has directed, written and/or produced hundreds of television programs
and films, and served as an executive in charge of three weekly broadcast
series, South Africa Now and Rights &
Wrongs: Human Rights Television (PBS) and Children
First (ABC). O’Connor’s television and film work
has garnered much professional recognition, including a George Polk
Award, a Writer's Guild Award, two Emmys, an Iris, and a Cine Gold
Eagle. He also oversees the not-for-profit media watchdog site MediaChannel.org,
and is Editorial Director of the social news network NewsTrust.net.
O'Connor began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and
producer at WGBH-TV, the PBS flagship in Boston, while his political
commentary was featured regularly on WBCN-FM, one of New England's
leading radio stations. He later was a Senior Producer at the ABC
affiliate WCVB-TV Boston, where he produced documentaries and played
a key role in the formation of the station's first investigative
news team "The Investigators;" Program
Producer of the nightly "Ten O'clock News"
at WGBH; and News Director of the nightly cable program "The
Neighborhood Network News." He subsequently produced
segments for the nightly PBS program "The MacNeil/Lehrer
NewsHour," and the weekly CBS News series "48
Hours."
O'Connor was a print journalist prior to starting his broadcasting
career, initially writing and editing for such outlets as the Boston
Globe, the Phoenix, Boston Magazine, and the alternative weekly
Real Paper, where he served in a variety of senior editorial positions,
including Managing Editor. His freelance articles subsequently appeared
in many leading national periodicals, including The Atlantic, Vogue,
Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The
Nation, Details, Broadcasting & Cable, Television Week and many
others. He is also co-author of the award-winning non-fiction book
Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America.
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2005: Executive-in-Charge-of-Production
“In Debt We Trust,” Independent Documentary
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2004: Executive Producer
“WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception,” Independent Documentary
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2003: Co-Director, Co-Producer,
Writer
"The Hole in the Wall," Independent Documentar
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2001: Co-Director, Co-Producer,
Writer
"Voices of the Poor," Independent Documentary
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2000: Executive-in-Charge-of-Production
"Hear Our Voices: The Poor on Poverty," Global Links
TV Documentary
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2000: Executive Producer
"Falun Gong's Challenge to China," Independent Documentary
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1999: Director, Writer,
"Richard Speck: Born To Raise Hell," Court TV Documentary |
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1999: Story Developer,
"The Trial of the Chicago 8," Court TV Documentary |
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1999: Executive Producer, Writer,
"Globalization and Human Rights," PBS Documentary |
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1998: Director, Producer, Writer,
"China: Change and Challenge," Global Links TV Documentary |
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1996: Producer,
"Yellow Wasps: Anatomy Of a War Crime," Independent Documentary |
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1994: Executive Producer, Writer,
"Countdown to Freedom," Independent Documentary |
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1993: Director, Producer, Writer,
"The Arming of Saudi Arabia," PBS Frontline Documentary |
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1992: Director, Producer, Writer,
"BCCI: The Bank of Crooks and Criminals," PBS Frontline Documentary |
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1992: Director, Producer, Writer,
"The Resurrection of Reverend Moon," PBS Frontline Documentary |
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1992: Executive Producer,
"Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy," Warner Bros. Documentary |
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1990: Executive Producer,
"Nelson Mandela: Free At Last," PBS Documentary |
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1990: Producer,Writer,
"No Place Like Home," WCVB-TV Documentary |
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1986: Producer, Writer
"Mafia On Trial," WCVB-TV Documentary |
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1985: Writer, Producer,
"No Safe Asylum," WCVB-TV Documentary |
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