Rory O’Connor is an author, blogger, journalist and filmmaker. He is co-founder and president of the media firm Globalvision, and oversees the nonprofit media-watchdog site MediaChannel.org. He has served as co-executive producer of the broadcast newsmagazines South Africa Now and Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television. He is the author of the recently published Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio and co-author of Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America. A regular online columnist for AlterNet and MediaChannel, O’Connor also writes a blog called “Media Is a Plural.” O’Connor started as a print journalist, writing and editing for the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Boston magazine and former alternative weekly, the Real Paper. O’Connor then began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at WGBH-TV while his political commentary was featured regularly on WBCN radio. He later was a senior producer at WCVB-TV, where he produced documentaries and played a key role in the formation of the station’s first investigative news team. As a Sagan Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, O’Connor researched and wrote a paper on trust, journalism and social networks.
Effective use of social media will determine 2012 election, says Rory O’Connor
October 9, 2012
October 9, 2012 – Former Fellow Rory O’Connor joined the Shorenstein Center for a discussion about how social media has influenced politics and traditional media. O’Connor, a filmmaker and journalist, is the author of Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media. Tracing social media’s
