NEAL CORTELL, Professional Background

Neal Cortell, Executive Producer-Director, Writer, Lecturer, Author, and Historian - has an extensive career involved in diverse aspects of television journalism. He has developed ABC Money Talks, ABC MoneyScope, American Consumer, and Business Week TV brands, under which he produced and directed 400 national financial news programs and 3,000 daily business reports that became the number one-rated of their genre. News programming alone under his charge has run in excess of over thirty-years via: ABC-TV, PBS-TV, FOX Business Network, and WorldNet TV.

Neal Cortell’s professional background includes Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones, Monitor, and ABC News. Neal is member of the American Society of Professional Journalists, U. S. Department of State Foreign Journalists Program, former consultant to American Forces Network, Europe (AFN), Deadline Club, National Arts Club, graduate of Emerson College in Boston, DeCordova Design School in Lincoln, MA, and former Journalist in the United States Coast Guard (Ret).

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MONTE CARLO TV/FILM FESTIVAL

By creating the Monte-Carlo Television/Film Festival in 1961, Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco wished to "encourage a new art form, in the service of peace and understanding". Monaco's global status suited the ambition of the Royal Family: to recognize television and film as a means of bringing cultures together and enhancing their respective knowledge.

This project immediately generated worldwide interest and over the years, many recognized celebrities have sat on the successive juries, bringing international recognition to what can be considered the best of television and motion picture programming. H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco has been the Honorary President of the Festival since 1988. The Authority Group of New York was honored as a "Select Finalist" in the News Documentary category entitled, THE MEDIA, Future of News by the international jury in Monaco.

WWII: COLLECTION OF RESOURCES

U. S. National Archives/Washington, DC
U. S. Women in Military Service for America Memorial/Arlington, VA
U. S. Navy Historical & Heritage Command/Washington, DC
U. S. World War II Memorial/Washington, DC
U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)/ Washington, DC
U. S. Navy War College/Newport, RI
U. S. Coast Guard Headquarters/Washington, DC
U. S. Coast Guard Museum & Library/New London, CT
USS Navy Nautilus Museum & Library/Groton, CT
National Security Agency Museum (NSA), Fort Meade, MD
Library of Congress/Washington, DC
American Merchant Marines Museum/Kings Point, NY
Winston Churchill Museum/ London & Cambridge, UK
Connecticut River Museum/Essex, CT
Custom House Museum/New London, CT
German Repository & Museum/Nuremberg, GER
National Canadian Archives & Museum/Saint John, New Brunswick Canada
Royal Canadian Navy/Atlantic Command Historian/Halifax, N.S. Canada
WWII Sackville Museum/Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
National Maritime Museum/ Bermuda
WWII Caribbean Command/San Juan, PR & St. Thomas, USVI
World War II Museum/Edenbough, Scotland, UK
Bletchley Park & Code Breakers Museum/Milton Keyenes, UK
Imperial War Archive/London, UK
Union National Des Combatants Museum/ Beausoliet, FR
WWII Historic Museum/ Anzio, Italy

Resources: Experts & Interviews

Peter Jennings, ABC News
Phil Donahue, TV Talk Host & Film Producer, "Body of War"
Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, Anchor & Managing Editor
Cokie Roberts, ABC & NPR Analyst, author of "Founding Mothers"
Jeff Greenfield, CBS News, Senior Political Correspondent
Keith Olbermann, former MSNBC Anchor & ESPN News
Ted Kopple, Former ABC News Anchor
William Wheatley, Jr., Former NBC News & Neiman Foundation, Harvard
Bill Baker, PBS & WNET, Columbia University & Fordham University
Norman Lear, Act III Communications, Creator, Producer & Writer
David Bushman, Paley Center for Media, Curator
Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center, D.C.
Naomi Klein, Lecturer & Author, "The Shock Doctrine"
John Quelch, Harvard Professor & Co-Author of "Greater Good"
Richard Parker, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor
Ellen Hume, MIT Civic Media & Authored, "Tabloids, Talk Radio and Future of News"
Robert McChesney, Author & Professor, University of Illinois
David Sirota, MNNBC Commentator & Author, "The Uprising"
Sean Hannity, Fox Cable & ABC Talk Host
Michael Wolff, Author & Media Commentator of "Vanity Fair"
Malia Lazu, Gathering Project, co-author "Get Stupid White Men Out of Office."
Janet Kolodzy, Emerson College, Professor of Journalism, Boston
Tuna Amobi, Media Analyst, Standard & Poor's
Joel Silberman, Political & Media Advisor
David Tereshuk, "The Media Beat," Columnist
David Carr, New York Times, Media Business Columnist
Stewart Elliott, New York Times, Marketing & Media Columnist
Andrew Lippman, Professor MIT Media Labs
Richard Wald, Commentator Columbia University
Todd Gitlin, Professor Columbia University
Phillip Balboni, Global Post Publisher
Nicole Sawaya, Pacifica Radio Director
Laura Flanders, GritTV Anchor
Julius Genachowski, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
Steve Rendall, Fair Magazine & Website Editor
Peter Hart, Analyst FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Barbara Walters, ABC News & "The View" (NYT)
Walter Cronkite, CBS News Anchor & Commentator (C Span)
Tom Brokaw, NBC Commentator & Author, "Boom" (NYT)

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NEAL CORTELL, Professional Background

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