Bill Lichtenstein

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Bill Lichtenstein is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and documentary film producer.

Lichtenstein is president of tbe independent media production company, LCMedia, and is excutive producer of the national, weekly public radio series, The Infinite Mind, which premiered in 1998 ^[1]. He also co-produced and was director of photography of the award-winning documentary film, "West 47th Street." ^[2]

Lichtenstein started as newscaster and announcer in 1970 at WBCN in Boston. ^[3]

A graduate of Brown University ^[4] and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism ^[5], Bill began his work in television as a writer for ABC and CBS Sports. In the 1980s, Lichtenstein worked at ABC News, including as an investigative producer for the ABC News magazine 20/20 and as a field producer for Nightline, World News Tonight, and other ABC News programs. In 1983, a 20/20 segment he produced, "Throwaway Kids," was nominated for an Emmy Award. The nomination, for a segment that uncovered the circumstances surrounding abused and dying children in Oklahoma state juvenile institutions^[6] was one of three Lichtenstein received that year.

Since 1980, Lichtenstein has taught investigative reporting for TV and documentary film production at The New School in New York City.

He has received more than 60 journalism honors ^[7] including a Guggenheim Fellowship^[8]; a Peabody Award ^[9] and a United Nations Media Award ^[10].

Lichtenstein specializes in politics, particularly the politics of health issues, and the media for such publications as The Nation, Newsday, Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, 7 Days, Health, Medical Tribune, Channels and the New York Daily News. "The Secret Battle for the NEA," published in the Village Voice in 1992, received a National Headliner Award. His news photography has appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun.