David Tereshchuk

David Tereshchuk has reported and made television documentaries for American TV channels (ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel) and British ones (Thames TV, London Weekend TV, and Channel Four - where he was also frequently a program-anchor). Many of the programs were international, concerned with the Third World especially, and he has acted as a media adviser to corporations, non-profit organizations and the United Nations. He has also written for many US publications including The New York Times, and A. M. New York, where his noted column "The Media Beat" began as a weekly feature. He has also contributed to The Guardian, The Observer, and the New Statesman in London. He has advised global corporations, governments, non-profits and international organizations on their media and communications policies. His early media included coverage of Northern Ireland's violence, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. In the 1980s he headed British commercial television's network division making programs on ethical and religious matters. He helped build and subsequently ran from London the International Broadcasting Trust, a non-profit company devoted to producing and distributing TV programming on Third World subjects, plus accompanying published material. He was honored 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.