David Tereshchuk

The author is a journalist working mainly in the broadcast media but also for magazines and newspapers (The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Statesman). He spent two decades with British commercial television, reporting, producing and making documentaries, before moving to the US, where he worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel. His earliest work included coverage of violence in Northern Ireland, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. Since 2012 he has been a producer and correspondent for PBS, concentrating on ethical issues. He broadcasts a weekly public-radio dispatch of media criticism, The Media Beat, and writes an online column with the same name, at www.themediabeat.us. A graduate of Oxford University, he has been a US citizen since 2002 and lives in New York City and Ireland. He has been honoured by Britain’s Royal Television Society with its Social Documentary Award, and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science with its Television Award.