Rory OConnor is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is also president and co-founder of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit educational foundation. He has directed, written and/or produced numerous films and television programs, and served as an executive in charge of three weekly television series, South Africa Now, and Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television (PBS), and Children First (ABC). His broadcast and film work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writers Guild Award, two Emmys, an Iris, a Cine Gold Eagle, and many other awards. He also oversees two Internet sites, the not-for-profit MediaChannel.org, and the Globalvision News Network (GVNEWS.NET), an international wire service distributing hundreds of articles daily from dozens of professional news organizations around the world.

OConnor began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at WGBH-TV, the PBS flagship in Boston. He subsequently was a senior producer at the ABC affiliate WCVB-TV Boston, where he produced documentaries and played a key role in the formation of The Investigators, the stations first investigative news team. He later was program producer of the nightly Ten Oclock News at WGBH, and news director of the Neighborhood Network News, a nightly cable news program. His political commentary was featured regularly on WBCN-FM, one of New Englands leading radio stations. He later produced segments for the nightly PBS program The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and the weekly CBS News series 48 Hours.

Prior to his career in broadcasting, OConnor was a print journalist for more than a decade, writing and editing for such newspapers and magazines as the Boston Globe, the Phoenix, Boston Magazine, and The Real Paper, where he served in a variety of senior editorial positions, including that of managing editor. His articles have appeared in many leading national periodicals, including The Atlantic, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The Nation, Newsweek, Details, Musician, Parents, and many others. He is the co-author of an award-winning non-fiction book entitled Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America (Sierra Club, 1981; Penguin, 1982.)

A graduate of Boston College, OConnor has taught and lectured at a number of universities, including Harvard, MIT, and Columbia, and was most recently an External Fellow of The Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University.