Rory O'Connor (filmmaker)

Rory O'Connor
Born
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.A., Boston College; Fellow, Rutgers University; Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Rory O'Connor is a journalist, author, educator, and documentary filmmaker. He is co-founder and president of the Globalvision Corporation, and board chair of the Global Center, an affiliated non-profit foundation. His films and television programs have aired on PBS,[1] BBC, NHK, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and numerous other networks. He has been involved in the production of more than two dozen documentaries, and his broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer's Guild Award for Outstanding Documentary, an Orwell Award[2] and two Emmys. He has written several books and blogs for the Huffington Post,[3] AlterNet,[4] Al Jazeera[5] and other news sources.

  1. ^ "FRONTLINE/WORLD . India - Hole in the Wall . Reporter's Notebook: Making Connections - PBS". PBS.
  2. ^ Past Recipients of the NCTE Orwell Award Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, National Council of Teachers of English
  3. ^ "Rory O'Connor". HuffPost.
  4. ^ "Stories by Rory O'Connor". Alternet.
  5. ^ "Welcome to America, al Jazeera".