Danny Schechter, executive editor, MediaChannel.org
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector", launched a media career in Boston on WBCN Radio. He became a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, a reporter at WGBH, a producer at WLVI and WCVB, and then went on to CNN and ABC News where he won two Emmys. However, he believes media, the field in which he has worked for four decades, is harming our democracy. Are the major news corporations doing more harm than good? Can independent media, empowered with the tools of a technological revolution, do any better? Schechter looks back on his journey from Boston to the world stage and explores the rapidly changing ways in which we receive our information.