Rory O’Connor is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of the media firm Globalvision, Inc, and Board Chair of The Global Center.

Career

O'Connor began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...

 in Boston.

He is the recipient of several awards, including the George Polk Award, the Writer's Guild

Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....

 and the George Orwell Award.

Writings

• Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media (City Lights
  City Lights Bookstore
  City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence...
  
  , 2012). ISBN-10: 0872865568, ISBN-13: 9780872865563.

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
  9/11: Press for Truth
  9/11: Press for Truth is a 2006 documentary film about the September 11 attacks on the United States, directed by the American filmmaker Ray Nowosielski, and partially based on The Terror Timeline, by Paul Thompson.-Development and release:...
  
  , 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
  Court TV
  truTV is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The network launched as Court TV in 1991, changing to truTV in 2008...
  
   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
  WCVB-TV
  WCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
  
   Documentary
• 1986: Producer, Writer - Mafia On Trial, WCVB-TV Documentary
• 1985: Producer, Writer - No Safe Asylum, WCVB-TV Documentary

External links

• Media is a Plural - Roryoconnor.org
• http://www.alternet.org/columnists/2226/Rory O'Connor columns on AlterNet
  AlterNet
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