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Bill Lichtenstein
President, Lichtenstein Creative Media
Bill Lichtenstein's work as an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and documentary producer spans more than 35 years, and has been honored with more than 60 major journalism awards.
Bill founded Lichtenstein Creative Media in 1990 to produce high-quality film, TV and radio productions dealing with health, human rights and social justice issues. These include the Peabody Award-winning “Voice of an Illness” documentary series, the first programs to featured people who recovered from serious mental illness telling their own stories, in their own words; the award-winning documentary film, “West 47th Street,” which followed four people with serious mental illness over three years, and which aired on PBS’s P.O.V., won the Atlanta Film Festival and was called “must-see” by Newsweek; “If I Get Out Alive,” narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and child advocate Diane Keaton, which exposed the conditions faced by young people incarcerated in adult correctional institutions; and “The Infinite Mind,” for a decade public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program, which examined all aspects of the human mind, mental health and neuroscience.
Bill's work, and that of LCMedia, has been honored with more than 60 major broadcast awards including: a George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting, TV and radio’s highest honor; Guggenheim Fellowship; Media Award from the United Nations; seven 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. LCMedia has also received top media awards from the major national mental health organizations, including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Mental Health Association, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the American Psychiatric Association, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).
LCMedia has also pioneered the use of 3-D virtual reality, in the on-line community Second Life, for public
broadcast, health, education, social organizing and other non-profit uses. These include the first live broadcasts
from Second Life for public radio’s The Infinite Mind, with Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega; a live event for
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Darfur featuring Mia Farrow; a press conference with Italian
Minster of Infrastructure, Antonio di Pietro; and the co-development of a corporate site for Dell, Inc. in Second
Life, featuring a science and technology center and a factory where visitors can build their own computers.
Previously, Bill worked for seven years for ABC News producing investigative reports for “20/20,” “World News Tonight” and “Nightline” on compelling human stories with a focus on social justice issues including abused and dying children in Oklahoma state juvenile institutions; battered women convicted of murdering their abusers; and an Ohio town that fought back after being taken over by organized crime.
Bill has become a recognized leader in the area of mental health and strategic communications. He has served on the advisory council of the Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health at Columbia University, the Advisory Board of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism; advisory board of Families for Depression Awareness; and review committees at the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Bill is a frequent speaker on the subject of health and strategic communications. including at the 2007 "Science + Society: Closing the Gap" conference, organized by Harvard University; keynote speech at SAMHSA's National Training Conference on Homelessness for People with Mental Illnesses; featured speaker at the NIH/Fogarty Center Conference on Disease and Stigma; keynote speaker at the 2005 Corporation for Supportive Housing national conference; and he moderated a panel on recovery from trauma at the 2006 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health.
Bill is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and has written on politics, health issues and the media for such publications as The Nation, Boston Globe, Newsday, Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, and the Sunday New York Daily News business section.
A graduate of Brown University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Bill taught investigative reporting for TV, and documentary film production, at the New School for Social Research from 1979 through 2006.
