Terry FitzPatrick
Location:
California United States
Skype: terryfitzpatrick
Bio:
Terry FitzPatrick is a versatile American journalist with more than 25 years of
experience in television, radio, print and Internet reporting/communications.
As a journalist, he has covered a wide range of stories: from economic development in Africa, to death row executions in Texas, to political chaos in war-torn Kosovo, to the global challenges of AIDS. He has filmed a behind-the scenes history of the New York Stock Exchange, and has traveled to Antarctica to report on global climate change and the ozone hole.
Many of FitzPatrick’s radio documentaries have been heard on National Public Radio in the U.S., where he served as National Affairs Correspondent and Senior Editor for the environmental news program Living on Earth. While based in Africa, he covered business news for Marketplace, and general news for The World and Voice of America.
His television work has aired on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, Fox and PBS—where he served as a contributor to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
His print articles have appeared in The Dallas Morning News, Texas Observer and Columbia Journalism Review. Online articles have appeared in The Huffington Post.
FitzPatrick has directed television, radio, newspaper and Internet training projects in 17 countries in Asia, Africa and eastern Europe. He has authored a manual for television and radio journalists covering economic news, and has co-authored a radio newsroom handbook. He has conducted interview training workshops for corporate executives and members of parliament. He designed and launched a regional reporting network for U.S. radio stations in the Pacific Northwest.
FitzPatrick is currently based in Los Angeles, where he produces video documentaries and website articles on human trafficking and modern slavery as a communications officer for the nonprofit group Free the Slaves. He conducts television and radio training projects worldwide.
