Contact:

Washington, DC, USA
Phone: +1-310-982-9327



e-mail: terry@fitzpatrickmedia.com
Skype:  terryfitzpatrick

Printable Resume
Biography:

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 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.

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 currently serves as communications director for a Washington-based
nonprofit, Free the Slaves, where he supervises the production of website articles and
video documentaries about human trafficking and modern slavery.  

He mentors journalism students as part of  United Press International's teaching
initiative, UPIU.com; and he conducts journalism and communications training
projects worldwide.
Terry FitzPatrick
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