Bill Lichtenstein
President, LCMedia
Senior Executive Producer, The Infinite Mind

Bill Lichtenstein's award-winning documentary work in television, film and radio spans more than 35 years, and has been honored with more than 60 major broadcast awards.

He founded Lichtenstein Creative Media in 1990 to produce high-quality film, television and radio productions dealing with health, human rights and social justice issues. Bill created and is Senior Executive Producer of the national, weekly public radio series, The Infinite Mind, and was co-director and co-producer (as well as serving as director of photography) of the award-winning documentary film, West 47th Street.

Bill founded LCMedia in 1990, after working for seven years for ABC News 20/20, World News Tonight and Nightline, where he produced investigative reports. His work, and that of LCMedia, has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship; a George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting, TV and radio’s highest honor; a Media Award from the United Nations; six National Headliner Awards; four Gracie Awards from American Women in Radio and Television; and five Unity Awards in Media from Lincoln University of Missouri for coverage of minority issues.

Bill has become a recognized leader in the area of health and science education and outreach. He is on the advisory council of the Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health at Columbia University, on the advisory board of Families for Depression Awareness, and was a member of the program committee for the Carter Center mental health symposium on trauma. He also serves on review committees for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Bill is a frequent speaker on the subject of health and strategic communications. including the 2007 “Science + Society: Closing the Gap” conference, organized by Partners HealthCare and Harvard University, and a presentation to the California State Proposition 63 Commission in California regarding the implementation of strategic health communications. Bill moderated a panel on recovery from trauma at the 2006 Mental Health Symposium at the Carter Center; delivered the keynote speech at the SAMHSA's National Training Conference on Homelessness for People with Mental Illnesses and/or Substance Use Disorders; was a featured speaker at the NIH/Fogarty Center Conference on Disease and Stigma; and served as the keynote speaker at the 2005 Corporation for Supportive Housing national conference in Minnesota.

A graduate of Brown University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Bill began his work in television at ABC and CBS Sports. He later worked at ABC News as an Emmy Award-winning producer of investigative reports for the ABC News magazine 20/20 and as a field producer for Nightline, World News Tonight, and other ABC News programs. Bill's efforts at ABC focused on telling compelling human stories with a focus on overarching societal issues. Among them were: abused and dying children in Oklahoma; state institutions for the mentally retarded; battered women convicted of murdering their abusers; victims of faulty automobile design; and an Ohio town that fought back after being taken over by organized crime. Bill is a member of the faculty of the New School for Social Research, where he taught courses from 1979 through 2006 on investigative reporting for TV and documentary film production.

Bill has written on politics, health issues and the media for such publications as The Nation, Newsday, Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, 7 Days, Health, Medical Tribune, and Channels. His feature articles appeared in The Sunday New York Daily News business section. Bill's 1992 investigative report for the Village Voice, "The Secret Battle for the NEA," received a National Headliner Award. Bill’s news photography has appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun.

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