Owner, David Lewis Productions
Greater Atlanta Area
- Current
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- Radio host at WMLB AM-1690
- Owner at David Lewis Productions
- Past
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- Freelance Producer-Director at CNBC -- Business Nation
- Co-Founder at Comedy for Peace
- Freelance Producer - Director at CNN Presents
- Freelance Producer at CBS News -- 60 Minutes
- Senior Producer -- O'Reilly Specials at Fox News Channel
- Freelance Producer-Director at ABC News -- 20/20 Downtown
- Correspondent at CNN
- Fellow at Nieman Foundation
- Producer at ABC News
- Education
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- Harvard University
- Harvard University
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David Lewis’s Summary
EXPERIENCE:
In broadcasting since 1982. Currently doing a mixture of broadcast news, documentaries, corporate brand films, commercials and radio.
As a journalist I've worked in investigative, magazine and documentary programming. I've been an on-camera reporter, a producer and director. Worked at ABC News, CNN and, since 2001, independently. Recent clients have been Frontline-World, 60 Minutes, 20/20, CNBC Business Nation, CNN Presents, Fox News. (Specials with Bill O'Reilly). My radio program ("Conversations with David Lewis") airs in Atlanta on AM1690 and my assignment is to interview anyone I want about anything: authors, spies, comedians, movie-directors, security experts in Iraq and so on. Salman Rushdie to Grandmaster Flash to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. And I do occasional media consulting for an eclectic assortment of clients in the US, Middle East and Latin America, including a Presidential candidate and a major security firm.
GOALS:
To keep telling compelling stories in a range of mediums: tv, radio and corporate communications.
David Lewis’s Specialties:
An ability to enter any world and get people to tell me their stories. This could be within a corporation or inside a terrorist group.
David Lewis’s Experience
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Radio host
WMLB AM-1690
(Broadcast Media industry)
May 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
My assignment is to "interview anybody I want about anything" for a local radio station which airs the segments twice daily during rush hour. Subjects have included Salman Rushdie, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Bill O'Reilly, the most-decorated spy in the history of the CIA and many more. War correspondents, authors, soldiers, security guards in Iraq, friends in Beirut and Tel Aviv, spies, comedians, musicians, etc...
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Owner
David Lewis Productions
(Broadcast Media industry)
2001 — Present (7 years)
A film production company that produces documentary and magazine pieces for broadcast news outlets, commercials and corporate films.
Broadcast news pieces have been for Frontline-World, 60 Minutes. CNBC Business Nation, CNN Presents, ABC News 20/20 and for the Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel.
Lewis has also been involved in a non-profit project, Comedy for Peace, has written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and COLORS Magazine, has a daily radio segment where he interviews a broad spectrum of unique people and does media consulting for an eclectic group of international clients.
Lewis has also done corporate films for the likes of: GRACO; Lenox Tools, Newell-Rubbermaid, BrightHouse and Emory University. Commercials have been in partnership with Emory Professor, Drew Westen, for political candidates and independent organizations. -
Freelance Producer-Director
CNBC -- Business Nation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Produced freelance magazine pieces for CNBC's magazine show, Business Nation.
Stories were about the redevolpment of a terrible Atlanta neighborhood and an investigation into the Tri-Border area of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. -
Co-Founder
Comedy for Peace
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years)
This is a non-profit that aims to use standup comedy as a conflict resolution tool. See www.comedy4peace.org.
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Freelance Producer - Director
CNN Presents
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Produced/directed 2 documentaries on terrorism-related issues. Involved travel to Israel, West Bank and Gaza; Hong-kong and Macau; England and Northern Ireland and France.
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Freelance Producer
CBS News -- 60 Minutes
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Produced a freelance piece for Steve Kroft on Yucca Mountain, the designated repository for nuclear waste.
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Senior Producer -- O'Reilly Specials
Fox News Channel
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years)
Senior produced three Bill O'Reilly specials for the Fox Network. Also helped The O'Reilly Factor post 9/11 with national security matters.
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Freelance Producer-Director
ABC News -- 20/20 Downtown
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
Produced 2 pieces for ABC News magazine show.
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Correspondent
CNN
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TW; Broadcast Media industry)
1990 — 2001 (11 years)
On-camera investigative reporter. Worked on magazine pieces and documentaries and also the biggest breaking news stories, such as the Gulf War, Oklahoma City bombing, Florida recount and others. Extensive global travel.
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Fellow
Nieman Foundation
(Broadcast Media industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year)
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Producer
ABC News
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
1982 — 1990 (8 years)
Producer for ABC News CloseUp, the documentary unit, then was an investigative producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Did extensive domestic and some international travel.
David Lewis’s Education
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Harvard University
Nieman Fellow, Journalism, 1993 — 1994
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Harvard University
AB Cum Laude, VES, 1976 — 1981
- Activities and Societies:
- WHRB
Additional Information
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David Lewis’s Interests:
Jazz
David Lewis’s Groups:
Atlanta Press Club, Nieman Foundation
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CNN Alumni
David Lewis’s Honors:
Headliner, Emmy and Peabody, DuPont-Columbia Citation, Shorenstein-Barone, Cable-Ace, Prism and Genesis awards. First Nieman Fellow from CNN.
David Lewis’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
- business deals
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