Four decades of documentary filmmaking, broadcast journalism, and media criticism — programming aired on leading networks in more than one hundred countries.
Selected Work
Films & TV
As co-founder of Globalvision, Rory has produced films, specials and series broadcast in more than one hundred countries — earning two Emmys, a George Polk Award, a Writers Guild Award, a George Orwell Award, a Gabriel Award and many other honors along the way.
Books
Nukespeak on the language of nuclear technology, Shock Jocks on hate speech and talk radio, and Friends, Followers and the Future on how social media is reshaping politics and the press.
Journalism
Articles in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Vogue, The New York Times, The Nation, Newsweek, and more. Fellowships at Harvard's Shorenstein Center and Rutgers's Walt Whitman Center.
In Brief
Rory O'Connor has been the show runner in charge of seven different television series, produced nationally broadcast news reports for CBS and PBS, and been a key figure in the creation of dozens of documentary films. As co-founder and president of Globalvision in New York — the independent media firm he launched with Danny Schechter in 1988 — he managed the international television newsmagazines South Africa Now and Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television, as well as the ABC Network's Children First, hosted by Diane Sawyer.
His programming has aired on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and FOX in the United States and on the BBC, RAI, NHK, and National Geographic abroad — reaching audiences in more than one hundred countries.