He also produced documentaries for the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel. Simpson, Malcolm X, Colin Powell, Timothy McVeigh, LBJ, Frank Sinatra, James Earl Ray, and Jim Jones.
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In 1975 he joined the Today Show where he spent 11 years in a number of senior producing positions in Washington and New York.Īfter leaving NBC News, he worked for more than five years as a freelance producer for ABC, he wrote and produced a series of A&E Biography documentaries that included O.J. He was Bureau Chief in Hong Kong and London before returning to New York to oversee the network's news specials. He produced documentaries and worked on specials, including space coverage, before being named NBC's Bureau Chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He moved from copyboy to producing segments and writing for the Huntley-Brinkley Report, first in Washington and then in New York then on to field producer for the newsmagazine show Chet Huntley Reports. Ron Steinman began his career at 23 at NBC News and spent 35 years at the network. The University of Missouri presented him with the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 2007. In 2002, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) and in 2004 he was honored with the Joseph A. He has won the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Picture of the Year award twice the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the fall of Saigon and two Eisie Awards from the Columbia University School of Journalism. Halstead is now a senior fellow in photojournalism at The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1992, he played an instrumental part in the formation of Video News International (VNI), which started what is now the Platypus movement, teaching still photojournalists to cross the barrier between print and television. During this period he was also a "Special Photographer" on many films, producing ad material used by major Hollywood studios. His photographs have appeared on 47 TIME covers. Covering the White House for the next 29 years, he was one of only six photographers asked to accompany Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China in that same year.
Halstead accepted an independent contract with TIME magazine in 1972. He went on to work for United Press International (UPI), covering stories around the world for more than 15 years and was their picture bureau chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War. After attending Haverford College, Halstead did a two-year stint as a roving photographer in the U.S. At the age of 17, he became LIFE magazine's youngest combat photographer, covering the Guatemalan Civil War (the editors at LIFE had no idea how old he was). He began his photojournalism career during high school. Dirck Halstead is the Editor and Publisher of The Digital Journalist.
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