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Bill Orme is listed as Author, consultant on freedom of information, international media, and strategic communications at Emro Associates, based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at undp.org, phone signal with area code 212, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Bill Orme.
Bill Orme previously worked as CEO at Emro Associates and UN Representative at Global Forum For Media Development (Gfmd). Bill Orme holds Ba, Latin American Studies; Journalism from Friends World College (Liu).
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Bill Orme is an author, editor, and independent consultant specialized in media development and strategic communications. A veteran journalist, he covered Latin America for The Economist and the Washington Post and the Middle East for the New York Times; he later served as a senior UN communications official. Since 2015 he has worked with the Brussels-based Global Forum for Media Development, leading civil society advocacy for a commitment to freedom of information in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. He also works currently as an independent public information and media development advisor for the European Union, USAID and UNESCO.A longtime press freedom defender, Bill served as executive director of the NY-based Committee to Protect Journalists in the 1990s. From 2002 to 2014 he worked at the UN as spokesman and head of External Communications for the United Nations Development Programme and Chief of Communications & Publishing for the UN Human Development Reports. Prior to his UN service, Bill was a Middle East correspondent for The New York Times, UN bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times, and Mexico correspondent for The Economist and The Washington Post, among other international assignments. He was the founding editor of LatinFinance, a Miami-based Latin American business monthly. Bill is the author of “Understanding NAFTA: Mexico, Free Trade and the New North America” (University of Texas, 1996 )and editor and lead essayist of “A Culture of Collusion: An Inside Look at the Mexican Press” (University of Miami, 1997). He was an editor and writer for the annual CPJ 'Attacks on the Press' reports (1993-98) and the UN Human Development Reports (2003-2007; 2010-2014). Books to which he has contributed include “Journalists in Peril” (Transaction, US, 1998); “Crimes of War” (W.W. Norton, US, 1999); “Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications” (Elsevier, 2003); “Media in Support of Sustainable Development” (UNESCO, 2015); and “The Trust Factor” (Ethical Journalism Network, UK, 2015). Bill serves on the advisory boards of the National Endowment for Democracy’s Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and UK-based Ethical Journalism Network and is a proud founding board member of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse and its free public kayaking program.
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Brooklyn NY USA
- Consultant on media development and strategic communications (EU, UN, NGOs)- UN Representative, Global Forum for Media Development - Advisor on access-to-information commitments in the Sustainable Development Goals- Author, reports and commentaries on international development & press freedom issues
New York NY
Advocate and strategic advisor for GFMD campaign to include commitments to freedom of information & media in the UN's 2016-2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Chief, Publishing & Communications, Human Development Report, for the UN Development Program
Independent consultant on media development in Africa for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & BBC World Service Trust, with special focus on media law, journalism training, and regional media institutions
UN HQ New York; Sierra Leone
From 2007 through early 2009 was the Senior Policy Advisor for Independent Media Development for UNDP's Democratic Governance unit in New York, creating a global 'practice area' in the media field; Relocated in February 2009 to work for the UN Peace-building mission in Sierra Leone, to manage the transition of the UN's local radio station into a new.
UN HQ New York
Served as UNDP's chief spokesman and manager of global press relations and advocacy campaigns; oversaw media outreach and training at 100+ UN country offices; directed media campaigns for Human Development Reports and MDGs.
New York
Responsible for LA Times coverage of UN actions, debates and controversies in that post-9/11 period, including the intervention in Afghanistan and related UN anti-terrorism responses; early US preparations for 'regime change' in Iraq; Security Council debates and eventual approvale of the International Criminal Court; UN international development.
Jerusalem
As an NYT correspondent based for three years (1998-2001) at The New York Times Jerusalem bureau, Bill covered a wide range of regional issues and personalities and breaking news events, from the second Intifada to the death of Jordan's King Hussein to Israel's high-tech and armaments industries to the economic challenges facing occupied Palestine.
New York
From 1993 to 1998 Bill Orme served as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), helping to build CPJ's reputation as the most authoritative source on attacks on journalists and other press freedom violations worldwide - and as a highly effective advocate on behalf of all journalists under threat, including those facing imprisonment.
Author, “Continental Shift: NAFTA & the New North America,” commissioned and published by The Washington Post Briefing Books in 1993. Updated edition published by the University of Texas Press in 1996 as “Understanding NAFTA: Mexico, Free Trade, and the New North America”
Mexico City
Washington Post 'Special Correspondent' in Mexico, responsible for most of the Post's coverage of Mexico and US-Mexico economic, immigration and diplomatic issues from 1984 to 1988
Majored in Latin American studies, minored in journalism at FWC program in Guatemala, following 18 months in Dublin and Belfast studying.
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Bill Orme holds Ba, Latin American Studies; Journalism from Friends World College (Liu).
Bill Orme is listed with skills including International Development, Journalism, Strategic Communications, Editing, Africa, Latin America, Middle East, and Media Development.
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