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Schechter’s professional journalism career began in 1970,
when he was named news director, principal newscaster, and
“News Dissector” at WBCN-FM in Boston, where he was
hailed as a radio innovator and won many industry honors,
including two Major Armstrong Awards.
His television-producing career was launched as an on-air
reporter at WGBH and then as a producer with the syndicated
“Joe Oteri Show,” which won the New England Emmy and a
NAPTE IRIS award in 1979. In l980, he created and produced
the nation’s first live late-night entertainment-oriented TV
show, “Five All Night, Live All Night” at WCVB in Boston.
Schechter left Boston to join the staff at CNN as a producer
based in Atlanta. He then moved to ABC News as a producer
for “20/20,” where during his eight years he won two National
News Emmys (and two nominations), two regional Emmys,
a National Headliner award, and the Society for Professional
Journalists award for an investigative documentary.
Amnesty International honored him for his human rights
television work. In 2005, he received the George Orwell
Award.
Schechter has reported from 63 countries and lectured at
many schools and universities. He was an adjunct professor
at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
Schechter’s writing has appeared in leading newspapers and
magazines including the The Nation, Newsday, Boston Globe,
Columbia Journalism Review, Media Studies Journal, Detroit
Free Press, Village Voice, Tikkun, Z, and many other newspapers,
magazines and websites, including Huffington Post,
Buzzflash, Alternet, ZNet, Global Research and others. He has
had books translated into Korean and Chinese.