Stephen Segaller

Stephen Segaller is director of news and public affairs programming at Thirteen/WNET. He is an author and producer specializing in journalism, media and technology. At Thirteen/WNET, the flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service, he is responsible for overseeing and developing all the news and public affairs output of the station, including weekly newsmagazines such as Religion and Ethics Newsweekly; documentary series such as Local News, Allies at War, Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood, and United Nations: Center of the Storm; the continuing output of Fred Friendly Seminars; and documentary specials such as multiple award-winning Srebrenica - A Cry From The Grave and Sound and Fury. In July 2002, he launches the primetime international documentary series, Wide Angle.

Prior to his arrival at WNET, Mr. Segaller was director of national and international production for Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), where he produced Nerds 2.0.1, a brief history of the Internet, and two other series featuring writer Bob Cringely, Triumph of the Nerds and Plane Crazy. For OPB, Mr. Segaller also served as executive producer of Eyewitness, Running Out of Time, A Question of Genes and The Machines That Won the War.

Mr. Segaller has spent over 20 years as a television producer working chiefly in journalism, current affairs and documentaries. His work in England includes current affairs television for London Weekend Television and Granada Television, and numerous documentaries and series for Channel 4. In 1992 he was awarded the prestigious William Benton fellowship in Broadcast Journalism, and spent an academic year at the University of Chicago, graduating with a Masters Degree in international relations.

His U.S. public television credits include the 1996 Emmy-winning documentary Return to the Lion's Den: Terry Anderson Returns to Lebanon; Triumph of the Nerds (1996), for which he served as series producer; Rain of Ruin: The Bombing of Nagasaki (1995); and episodes of the 1992 series Columbus and the Age of Discovery. In 2000, Srebrenica - A Cry From The Grave won both the Rockie Award for Best History or Biography Program, and the Grand Prize at the Banff Television Festival; and the Amnesty International Media Award for television documentary.

He is the author of three books: Invisible Armies: Terrorism into the 1990s (London, 1986) - described by one reviewer as "the most authoritative study of its kind"; Wisdom of the Dream: The World of C.G. Jung (London and Boston, 1989; republished New York, 2000); and Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (New York, 1998). The latter was republished in an updated edition in 1999, and was described by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times as "the best book in its field".

He is a member of the Radio & Television News Directors' Association, BAFTA East Coast (board member) the New York and U.S.A. Triathlon Associations and The Groucho Club.