Discussions with Martin Fletcher

Instructor: Martin Fletcher

January 19, 21  |  1-3 p.m.

First class:  Through the lens of his own work, Martin will detail how TV reports are made and what their impact can be.

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Second class:  Fletcher will show how his work as a television reporter morphed into books of non-fiction and fiction.

 

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

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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. He is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award.