Doug Terry is the chief editor/reporter for the TerryReport. Terry is a veteran Washington based reporter, having covered the White House, Capitol Hill, State Department and many other news locations. He came to Washington as a reporter/producer for NPR and was a general assignment reporter who also covered, and anchored programs, on the space for NPR. He has operated his own television news bureau in the nation’s capital, a bureau which served, over time, more than 85 local network affiliated television stations, including those in some of the largest cities, such as Philadelphia, Los Angles, Dallas, Houston, Chicago and others. Before moving to Washington, DC, Terry worked as local television reporter and anchor at the ABC Network television station in Dallas. Later, he served as Austin Bureau Chief and. after that, as managing editor/news director of a regional radio network of 85 stations covering three southwestern states. He has also worked for the CBC and many other radio news outlets around the country. As manager of a television news bureau in DC, Terry and his reporting staff were seen on more than 80 network affiliated television stations throughout the United States as well as many PBS stations. In his news bureau, Terry pioneered in the use of satellite technology to transmit news from Washington, DC, to local stations around the United States. He has also reported from numerous countries, including Russia, France, Jamaica, Panama, Haiti, England, Portugal and others. He was a pioneer in the development and application of digital video,creating a test project that was viewed by two major networks and CNN in 1992. He created a microwave system for Fox News in Sacramento, California and a distribution system for a cable news channel in southern California that saved the channel millions in operating expenses. He worked with the government and a broadcaster in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) to create a new international distribution channel, via satellite, for a channel in Kurdistan. That channel now is broadcast around the world, including the U.S. At present, Terry works as a technologist (fiber optics, digital video networking, digital video systems, etc.) on a consulting and development and implementation. As owner/Manager of Alexis Media Systems, Terry produces field production for television programs. The work of Alexis Media has appeared on all four over the air television networks and national cable networks, including Lifetime, CNN, Discovery, HGTV, FX Channel and many others, including local television stations and PBS stations and regional networks. Alexis Media employs award winning, highly experience photographers for its productions and prides itself on smooth integration with the needs of other producers and companies, particularly those in the production centers of New York and Los Angeles. Alexis Media has worked with LA based production companies for almost 20 years. Of particular concern now is the transition of print and electronic media to the digital age. Terry is working on potential solutions to the problems faced by newspapers which are losing advertising, but not able to replace the lost revenue with internet distribution. A monograph on this subject is planned for spring, 2010. Terry owns and manages Alexis Media Systems, through which he does his consulting work as well as television production. Alexis Media has “pioneer status” in the early development of digital video, now seen around the world, and in proposing and testing hand carried, digital video transmission systems (satellite video phones). It was one of the first organizations in the world to realize the benefits of digital technology in allowing news gathering from any location on the planet. He has worked on informal disaster relief since the late 1980s when hurricane Hugo hit South Carolina. Drawing on his experience covering hurricanes as a reporter, Terry has offered coordination and other assistance in major events, including 9-11 and Katrina. He was in the New Orleans area as Katrina moved through. Terry spends a significant amount of his time on artistic photography and he has been exhibited through a commercial gallery in Leesburg, Virginia. He also creates artistic moving images through video. Several important exhibits of his works are planned in the coming months and he is currently seeking additional gallery representation, particularly for his abstract, light images photographs, which involved making multi-colored, abstract images from sunlight. Before moving to Washington, DC, Terry worked as local television reporter and anchor at the ABC Network television station in Dallas. Later, he served as Austin Bureau Chief and. after that, as managing editor/news director of a regional radio network of 85 stations covering three southwestern states. |
