Evelyn Messinger

Last updated

Evelyn Messinger (born in Annapolis, Maryland) is an American TV and print journalist, digital media pioneer, television producer, and media activist. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Contents

Education and early career

Ms Messinger received her bachelor's degree in Broadcasting from San Francisco State University in 1980, and promptly produced her first documentary, The Windcatchers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMfTmY3D6E), and became a producer and editor at the San Francisco TV series VideoWest. She became a news editor and producer at the San Francisco bureaus of CNN and CBS, then worked in Europe producing pilots and programs for the BBC, France2 and others.

Professional career

Messinger is the producer of the TV and online video series This Planet (http://thisplanet.tv), and of The Goldziher Prize (http://goldziher.org) for Excellence in Journalism covering Muslim Americans.

She co-founded Internews, a global non-profit organization supporting independent media and access to quality information worldwide, with Kim Spencer and David M. Hoffman in 1982.

She was the American co-creator of the groundbreaking US-Soviet televised Spacebridges, which connected Soviet and American citizens, performers and lawmakers throughout the 1980s, and was the co-producer of many of these programs, [1] some of which won an Emmy Award in 1989. She was also the founding director of the Soros Foundation's Electronic Media Program (1990-1993).

Messinger was the founder of InterAct (Internews Interactive). She is currently the President Of Digital Citizen, a non-profit pioneer of digital media convergence that has specialized in citizen participation in media since 1998. In this role she served on the founding Board of Directors of Link TV, and has been instrumental in introducing new media formats to broadcast television and the Internet in projects with PBS, the World Bank, and many others. [2]

Awards

Her awards include a Webby Award in 2009 for Link TV series Global Pulse (2007-2010), a Cine Gold Eagle for the PBS documentary Thinking Twice (1982), and a first place in the San Francisco Video Festival for her documentary, Windcatchers, which ran nationally on the PBS network in 1980 as part of the Bay Area Video Coalition’s “Western Exposure” series.

Publications

Evelyn Messinger has written about media and democracy, the Internet, and digital citizenship for The Nation, [3] Whole Earth Review, [4] The Smart Set, [5] Qualcomm Spark, MediaShift, and The Huffington Post. [6]

Related Research Articles

Link TV, originally WorldLink TV, was a non-commercial American satellite television network providing what it described as "diverse perspectives on world and national issues." It was carried nationally on DirecTV until January 2023 and on Dish Network until November 1, 2023. Link TV was launched as a daily, 24-hour non-commercial network on December 15, 1999. It received no money from the satellite providers, but relies instead on contributions from viewers and foundations.

KQED is a PBS member television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by KQED Inc., alongside fellow PBS station KQEH and NPR member KQED-FM (88.5). The three stations share studios on Mariposa Street in San Francisco's Mission District and transmitter facilities at Sutro Tower.

KQEH, branded on-air as KQED Plus, is a PBS member television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by KQED Inc., alongside fellow PBS station KQED and NPR member KQED-FM (88.5) in San Francisco. The three stations share studios on Mariposa Street in San Francisco's Mission District and transmitter facilities atop Sutro Tower; until January 17, 2018, KQEH's transmitter was located atop Monument Peak.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doug McConnell</span>

Doug McConnell is a television journalist who has focused on environmental issues, with programs on the air continuously since 1982. He has created, produced and hosted many series, special programs, and news projects for local, national and international distribution. His broadcast awards include multiple Emmys, an Iris, and a Gabriel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Internews</span> Organization

Internews Network, now Internews, is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in California, formed in 1982. It was founded by David M. Hoffman, Kim Spencer, and Evelyn Messinger. The president and CEO is Jeanne Bourgault.

Kim Spencer is an American television producer and executive.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ramona Pringle</span> Canadian journalist, producer and actress

Ramona Pringle is a Canadian digital journalist, television host, multiplatform media producer, actress and professor. Currently she is the Director of the Transmedia Zone at Toronto Metropolitan University, an incubator for innovation in media, and a Technology Columnist for CBC.

Thomas Furneaux Lennon is a documentary filmmaker. He was born in Washington, D.C., graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1968 and Yale University in 1973.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Talbot</span> American journalist

Stephen Henderson Talbot is a TV documentary producer, reporter and writer. Talbot directed and produced "The Movement and the 'Madman' " for the PBS series American Experience in 2023. He is a longtime contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and worked for over 16 years for the series Frontline.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jamal Dajani</span>

Jamal Dajani is a Palestinian-American journalist and an award-winning producer. He is the co-founder of Arab Talk Radio. He formerly served as Director of Strategic Communications & Media for former Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Prior to this he was Vice President of Middle East and North Africa at Internews. He is currently a lecturer at San Francisco State University.

Renee Tajima-Peña is an American filmmaker whose work focuses on immigrant communities, race, gender and social justice. Her directing and producing credits include the documentaries Who Killed Vincent Chin?, No Más Bebés, My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women and the 5-part docuseries Asian Americans.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">BAVC Media</span> American nonprofit organization

BAVC Media, previously known as the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), is a nonprofit organization that works to connect independent producers and underrepresented communities to emerging media technologies. It was founded in 1976 in San Francisco.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David M. Hoffman</span> American media activist

David Michael Hoffman is an American author, political commentator, television project director and media activist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leon C. Collins</span>

Leon C. Collins is a media executive, media educator, producer/director, script writer, and photographic artist. Collins is recognized as one of the first prominent African-American public television management pioneers in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tami Gold</span> American film director

Tami Kashia Gold is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist and educator. She is also a professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York in the Department of Film and Media Studies.

<i>Makers: Women Who Make America</i> 2013 American documentary film

Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013. Makers features interviews with women from all social strata, from politicians like Hillary Clinton and television stars like Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey, to flight attendants, coal miners and phone company workers.

<i>Deaf Jam</i> 2011 American film

Deaf Jam is a 2011 documentary film directed and produced by American filmmaker Judy Lieff. The film centers on the experience of Aneta Brodski, a deaf teenager living in Queens, New York, who becomes immersed in the dynamic and three-dimensional form of American Sign Language poetry. When Aneta, an Israel-born ASL poet, eventually meets Tahani, a Palestinian, spoken word poet, the two begin to collaborate, creating a new form of poetry that gains recognition in deaf and hearing communities alike.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Damon Vignale</span>

Damon Vignale is a Canadian director, writer and producer working in film and television. Vignale has directed the films Little Brother of War and The Entrance. He released the web series The Vetala in 2009, drawn from the Baital Pachisi, a collection of Sanskrit tales and legends, and received a 2010 Gemini Award. Vignale's debut documentary film The Exhibition world premiered in the Next Program of the 2013 Hot Docs International Film Festival. The film won the 2014 International Emmy Award for Arts Programming, and was a Special Award recipient of the 2015 Canadian Screen Awards. Vignale's television credits as a writer-producer include ABC/CTV's homicide series Motive, Bravo's police drama 19-2, and the ITV/BritBox series The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco. He is currently a writer, director and co-executive producer on the Paramount+/CBC medical drama series SkyMed.

Helen De Michiel is an American director, producer, media arts advocate, strategist and author whose work includes film, television, multimedia installation and digital transmedia.

Isadora Quanehia Ding Welsh, known professionally as Loni Ding, was an documentary film maker, director, television series producer, activist, and university educator. She is known for her work exploring the experiences of Asian Americans. Notably, two of her films played a critical role in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which granted reparations to Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II.

References

  1. ↑ Spacebridges Television and US-Soviet Dialogue, University Press of America, Inc, 1989
  2. ↑ Quistgaard, Kaitlin (2001, June 15) Making Television Matter. Salon.com
  3. ↑ THE NATION (1999, November 29) Tiny Television
  4. ↑ WHOLE EARTH REVIEW (1993) Channel X: Pirate TV in Eastern Europe
  5. ↑ THE SMART SET (2023, December 14) Puckleman's Way
  6. ↑ HUFFINGTON POST (2009, May 5) Pakistani Women Protest Taliban But Support Islamic Law
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.