Oxfordshire, UK
$200 - $400 / Day
Chris Spannos has 20 years experience as a journalist across multimedia platforms. Most recently he was part of the start-up team hired to launch teleSUR English in Quito, Ecuador. While with teleSUR Chris was Web Editor, publishing 10-20 news articles per day. He was also host of teleSUR's media analysis program "Imaginary Lines," producing 40 episodes, with guests such as Julian Assange, Robert McChesney and many more. Chris has digital media experience, working with data sets, embargoed data, publishing partnerships and more. He began his media career in 1998 with Vancouver Cooperative Radio where he learned to write radio scripts and host shows, producing over 600 shows. Chris was also Web Editor for ZNet, overseeing 90,000 article submissions and personally overseeing publication of more than 30,000 articles during a 4 and-a-half year period. Chris continues to write and produce video and audio media.
Produced for teleSUR
In an exclusive interview with Imaginary Lines host Chris Spannos, from his temporary residence inside the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder and chief Julian Assange discusses his new book "When Google Met Wikileaks", which portrays two radically different and counterposed conceptions for the Internet and indeed the world.
James C. Goodale was chief counsel for the New York Times during the Pentagon Papers case. He is also former vice chairman of the New York Times Co. and is a leading legal expert on the First Amendment. Chris Spannos interviewed James about his book "Fighting for the Press."
Smartphones have evolved to play a fundamental role in our everyday lives. They have come to mediate information and social relationships. We use them for almost every conceivable purpose. Host Chris Spannos speaks with Elizabeth Woyke author of "The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry." Produced for teleSUR English.
Global media has been buzzing about The Mars One project. Kim Stanley Robinson is a highly acclaimed and award winning U.S. science fiction writer. Among many other science fiction books, he is author of The Mars Trilogy, an award winning series of science fiction novels. Host Chris Spannos spoke with Robinson about what Mars can provoke in the popular imagination.
Host Chris Spannos interviews Jade Lindgaard about Charlie Hebdo since 1968, Islamophobia and the French response. Jade is a journalist for Mediapart, an independent news site based in Paris.
In this episode host Chris Spannos speaks with Robert McChesney about how money and power, not only endanger electoral politics, but, challenge the DNA of American democracy itself.
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