An award-winning journalist, storyteller, producer, host and moderator with experience as a strategic and crisis communications consultant/advisor. Extensive negotiating experience. Complex planning, scheduling and execution on deadline and budget. Brand creation, development and implementation. Personnel and team mentoring and management, including under difficult conditions. Event development and execution. Excellent communications, research, production and writing skills. Energetic, sharply focused, results driven. Global network with excellent understanding of international media environments. Collegial and collaborative.

Career

2019- Co-founder and CEO of 4th Act Factual, an international production partnership focused on developing and producing original fact-based series and documentaries, primarily for the international market.

2017- Series Producer, Breaking News , Taglicht Media. Breaking News is a 6 hour international co-production investigating the history of Journalism. In Production.

2016- Freelance media consultant, host, moderator, event planner. Projects include high level panels for the IMF, other international organizations and corporations.

2016, Adjunct Professor, National Security Investigative Project, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

2013-2016, Correspondent America Tonight , and Host and Show Developer, Compass , Al Jazeera America. Medium and long form visually compelling storytelling. Investigations into elder abuse, refugees, terrorism, rise of ISIS, environmental and social issues.

2010-2013 CEO of MacVicarINK LLC, Consultant and strategist. Moderator/Host and Program Planner/Advisor. Media advisor and strategic consultant to government ministers, advocacy groups, international organizations and corporations, including UNESCO, the US State Department, and UN Women. Developed, planned and hosted/moderated high-level international events. Paris, London and Washington

2005-2010 International Correspondent, CBS News. London, covering South-East Asia including Pakistan, the Middle East, and Africa. Specialist in terrorism, security and intelligence. Investigative reporter. Traveling Bureau Chief, Riyadh

2001- 2005 Senior International Correspondent, CNN. London. Founding member of CNN s post-9/11 award-winning investigative team. Extensive experience, including live reporting, in the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

1990- 2001 International Correspondent, ABC News. London. Reported extensively from the Middle East (Iraq, Kuwait, Israel, Palestinian Territories), Africa (including conflicts, humanitarian crises in Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zaire/Congo), and the Balkans. Award-winning investigative experience.

Previous

Correspondent/Co-Host, The Fifth Estate , CBC News. One of four correspondent/hosts of well-regarded prime-time investigative program.

Foreign Correspondent, CBC News, London, San Salvador, Jerusalem