Martin Fletcher on the Media,
Storytelling and Writing
Instructor: Martin Fletcher

January 13, 15, 17 | 1-3 p.m.

The first class will review the changing media landscape – a personal view, going from general to specific. It would include a 20-minute insert from the owner of Mexico News Daily who would tell his story of how he is adapting his website for the changing media world. The second class will explore storytelling for television news and its impact on political/social perception. He will base this on his work as a foreign correspondent. The final class is about writing books. Martin will use his own work as examples of how hard it is and how rewarding. He may bring in another local author for 20 minutes to give another perspective.

Each lecture will be about 90 minutes leaving 30 minutes for Question & Answer Discussion.

Martin Fletcher is an English author and former NBC News’ Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau chief, who also worked for Reuters and the BBC. He left NBC News after 32 years to work on his third book (and first novel). He continued with NBC as a freelance Special Correspondent and has also reported for PBS Weekend Newshour. He has received numerous awards including five Emmys for his work on the first Palestinian uprising, the second Palestinian uprising, Rwanda, Kosovo, and trauma medicine in Israel, the duPont from Columbia University, which is the TV Pulitzer, five Overseas Press Club awards, several Edward R. Murrow awards, a Hugo gold medal for a documentary on Israel which he shared with other NBC staffers, and an award from Britain’s Royal Television Society. He has written seven books, fiction and non-fiction, published by St Martin’s Press.