1. Bill Lichtenstein was born on October 3,1956 and is an American print and broadcast journalist and documentary producer, president of the media production company, Lichtenstein Creative Media, Incorporated.
16 Facts About Bill Lichtenstein
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Bill Lichtenstein later produced investigative reports for ABC News and public radio and television programs and documentary films on social justice issues as well as educational outreach campaigns.
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Bill Lichtenstein writes for such publications as The New York Times, The Nation, New York Daily News, Boston Globe and Huffington Post.
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From 1980 to 2006, Bill Lichtenstein taught investigative reporting for TV and documentary film production at The New School in New York City.
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Bill Lichtenstein's work has received awards including a Peabody Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; eight National Headliner Awards; CINE Golden Eagle; Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism; and three National News Emmy Award nominations.
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Bill Lichtenstein worked at WBCN, one of the United States' original progressive rock radio stations starting while in junior high school, as a newscaster and on-air announcer.
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Bill Lichtenstein graduated from Brown University in 1978 with a degree in Political Science and English.
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Bill Lichtenstein began his work in television as a writer for ABC and CBS Sports, including as Chief Writer for CBS's coverage of the 1979 Pan American Games.
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Bill Lichtenstein was part of the Emmy-winning team with Sylvia Chase and Jeff Diamond that uncovered a fatal flaw in the VW Beetle, and along with Stanhope Gould, Bob Sirkin, and Steve Tello, broke the story of the Atlanta Child Murders in 1979.
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Bill Lichtenstein collaborated with producers Lowell Bergman and Andrew Cockburn on COINTELPRO: The Secret War, the first network news report on the FBI's covert program of dirty tricks used to disrupt and neutralize political activists, including actress Jean Seberg, and Black Panther Geronimo Pratt.
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Bill Lichtenstein worked on American Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations, a three-hour prime time ABC News special hosted by Pierre Salinger, that chronicled the previously unreported, extensive efforts by President Jimmy Carter to gain the release of the American hostages in Iran.
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In 1986, Bill Lichtenstein was one of the two show producers of the ABC late-night program Jimmy Breslin's People, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
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Bill Lichtenstein worked in 1986 for The Investigative Group, at the law firm of Rogovin, Huge and Lenzner, then out of house council for the CIA.
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Bill Lichtenstein produced the "Voices of an Illness" documentary series, which featured people who were living with, and recovered from, serious mental illness.
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Bill Lichtenstein created and was senior executive producer of the national, one-hour weekly series, The Infinite Mind, which for a decade starting in 1998 was public radio's most honored and listened to health and science program.
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The September 9,2012, Sunday New York Times published an op-ed by Bill Lichtenstein entitled "A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children".