Jay Tuck
Jay Nelson Tuck, Jr. (born April 25, 1945) is an American journalist, television producer, author, voice talent and lecturer.
During his 35-year-employment with ARD German Television, Tuck worked as investigative reporter, war correspondent in Iraq and Executive Producer of the daily network news magazine ARD-Tagesthemen. In 2001 he founded Airtime Dubai Ltd, an international media company based in United Arab Emirates, where he produces Arabic-language programming for 40 million viewers. As voice talent Tuck can be heard on international commercials and cinema trailers.
Early life
Jay Nelson Tuck, Jr.[1] was born in Brooklyn, New York as son of newspaper journalist Jay Nelson Tuck.[2] He attended Wayne High School in New Jersey and studied at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. There he shot his first student films, (The Date[3] and Short Circuit.[4] During his studies he also held jobs as a student economist at the Federal Trade Commission, the US Treasury and as a social worker in Harlem. Tuck began his journalistic career at age twenty as radio reporter for WYSO, the university’s FM station.[5]
Civilian service in Europe
As a recognized conscientious objector during the Vietnam War he travelled to Germany, where he served his two-year civilian service in Hamburg. During this time, Tuck shot various amateur films, including Good Day[6] with the British rock group Nektar.
ARD German Television
His German media career began in 1971 as a free-lancer for local TV at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hamburg, where he interviewed many entertainment personalities, including Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Mick Jagger, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol.[7] For thirty years, Jay Tuck was employed full-time by NDR and the ARD network, first as investigative reporter for NDR-Panorama and WDR-Monitor, later as war correspondent in both Gulf Wars.[8]
Free-lance journalist
In Germany, reportages from Jay Tuck appeared in Stern, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Zeit-Dossier und Zeit-Magazin erschienen. Internationally he has written for Oggi (Italy), Panorama and Neuewe Revu (Holland), Vi Menn (Norway), Le Point (France), Playboy (Germany) and Time Magazine (USA).[9]
Author
As book author,[10]
Books
High-Tech Espionage, St. Martins Press, New York, ISBN 9780708832714
The T Directorat, St. Martin's Press, New York, ISBN 9780312908355
High-Tech Espionage, Sidgwick & Jackson, London ISBN 9780283992926
Die Computer-Spione, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3453020081
La Guerre des Ordinateurs, Plon, Paris 2002, ISBN 9782259014212
Il gioco della conchiglia (Computer Connection), Adnkronos libri, Rome 1985
Ο πόλεμος των computers - Οι Πειρατές της Πληροφορικής (War of computers - Pirates of Information), Roes Publishing, Athens, 1986)
Direktorat T, Kriminalistik-Verlag, Köln 2002, ISBN 9783783213874
Airtime Dubai and Al-Jazeera
After retiring from ARD German Television, Jay Tuck founded Airtime Dubai Ltd[11] in the United Arab Emirates, an international media company[12] with close contacts to the Arab broadcasters of the region. His weekly technology magazine Understanding Tomorrow (عن كثب) was on-air for five years and watched by 40 million viewers on Al-Jazeera (Arabic). Airtime Dubai also produces corporate image videos.[13] It's music arm, Airtime Records, released the top-selling CD "Dubai Nights, Volume One".[14]
Voice talent
Tuck has continued his work behind the microphone since his university days, as radio DJ on the north German FM station NDR-2 (“Die Jay Tuck Show”) and as voice-talent in commercials and cinema trailers.[15] His voice can be heard on hundreds of TV-Spots for leading global brands,[16] as well as the narrator of Hollywood thriller „Alone in the Dark“ (starring Christian Slater[17]).
Recreation
Tuck is a long-distance runner. In the year 2000 he became the first American to run the Sibirian Ice Marathon[18] in Omsk, Russia.
References
- ↑ "Jay Tuck – Wikipedia" (in German). De.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Jay Nelson Tuck, 69, A Reporter and Editor - Obituary". NYTimes.com. 1985-11-25. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ JayTuck (2009-08-02). "The Date, Antioch College, Jay Tuck". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ JayTuck (2009-08-03). "ShortCircuit by Jay Tuck". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Yellow Springs and The Arts - Film, TV & Video". Oneglobepublishing.com. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Good Day, A Film by Jay Tuck featuring Nektar". YouTube. 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Jay Tuck - Autobiography 4 - Television". YouTube. 2010-12-04. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Jay Tuck: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". Amazon.com. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ Speaker Page Jay Tuck, London Speaker Bureau bit.ly/Mmq4fu
- ↑ Jay Tuck. "Jay Tuck (Author of High-tech Espionage)". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Airtime Dubai - Home". Airtime.ae. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ Gate - Newsletter of German Chamber of Commerce, July 2008, p. 35 http://airtime.ae/images/Press-GateEnglish.pdf
- ↑ ARABtainment LTD, Arab Business Portal (2012-06-15). "Airtime Dubai completes Image Video | ARABtainment.com - europäisch-arabisches BusinessPortal". ARABtainment.com. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ Amazon Music"Dubai Nights 01: Various, Jürgen Spiegel: Amazon.de: Musik". Amazon.de. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ Jay Tuck, Voice Talent, German agent Find-A-Voice "Jay Tuck, Sprecher bei". Find-a-voice.de. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Jay Tuck - Hamburg Issue 40, Showcase magazine". Production Paradise. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Home". FilmVoices. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ↑ "Sibirien-Marathon: Mit vereisten Augen über den Zielstrich - SPIEGEL ONLINE (German-language)". Spiegel.de. Retrieved 2012-07-15.