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*International Journalism Photo Gallery
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With Tom Brokaw during a live broadcast of NBC Nightly News at the opening of the Berlin Wall, West Berlin, 1989.
Filming the damage to the Bach Mai Hospital for ABC News, Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1975. The hospital was destroyed by U.S. bombing. Larry was invited to Hanoi in his role as Director of the "Coalition to Stop Funding the War," Washington, D.C.
Meeting with the Dalai Lama, Prague, 1991.
Interview with the last Communist leader of Hungary, Budapest, 1990.
Larry as the Producer of the PBS program, "European Journal," during a taping overlooking the Danube, Budapest, 1990.
Political strategizing with long-time friend Jane Fonda, Santa Monica, 1976.
With Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden at an anti-Vietnam rally, New York City, 1972.
Shortly before taking off to re-supply besieged members of the American Indian Movement in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1973. Larry was indicted by the Nixon Justice Department on 6 felony counts, including "aiding and abetting a civil disorder." He faced the possibility of 30 years in prison and a $30,000 fine. All charges were dropped one year later.
Hosting German broadcast journalists participating in the RIAS Berlin Commission journalist exchange program, Los Angeles, 1996.
Hosting German broadcast journalists participating in the RIAS Berlin Commission journalist exchange program, Athens, 1995.
Handing out diplomas (with Persephone Miel, Internews Director of Training for the former Soviet Union) to the news director of Tomsk TV, Russia, and other Russian broadcast journalists, after completion of the Internews Journalism School, taught by Larry Levin, Moscow, 1996.
With Svetlana Kolbaneva, News Director of Kaliningrad TV at graduation ceremonies following the completion of Internews Journalism School, Moscow, 1996.
Larry with his buffalo herd, Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, 1997. Buffaloe meat is low-fat, low-cholesterol, high-protein, and environmentally friendly. Buy it and eat it!
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*Articles and Press Releases
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FBI Press Release concerning arrest of Larry, 1973.
Boston Globe articles by Tom Oliphant describing the Wounded Knee airlift.
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Article concerning Larry's political activities, 1976.
Article concerning Larry's anti-Vietnam work, 1974.
Article written by Larry after reporting from Northern Ireland, 1971.
Only Reference to Larry Levin in the New York Times. May 4, 1973, Page 38.


*Professional Background
  • Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism faculty since 1992.
  • Guest Lecturer, Universitat Leipzig, Institut fur Kommunikations und Medienwissenschaft, 1995-1996.
  • Guest Lecturer, Internews Journalism School, Moscow, Russia, 1996-1997.
  • Field producer from 1987 to 1991 for NBC News, working on special events including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the bombing of Pan Am flight 103.
  • Broadcast producer for European Journal, a weekly news magazine about Europe for broadcast on PBS stations in the U.S., 1987-1991. The program received the silver medal in the best news magazine catagory at the 1991 New York Video and Television Festival.
  • Newswriter, KNBC-TV News in Burbank,1986-1987.
  • Field Producer, Writer, and Researcher, KCBS-TV News in Los Angeles, 1984-1986.
  • Press Advisor to the German Green Party in the Bundestag, Bonn, Germany, 1983-1984.
  • Community Programming Director for Davis (Calif.) Cable Television, 1982-1983.
  • Executive Director of the California Solar Energy Program (Western SUN), 1978-1981.
  • ABC News field producer in North Vietnam, Spring 1975.
  • Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Funding the War, Washington D.C., 1972-1975.
  • Producer, Pacifica Radio, 1970-1971.
  • Research Assistant, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, 1965-68.

Selected Television Credits

  • Executive Producer, Changing Fortunes - Stories From Eastern Germany, 1996.
  • Producer, Hungary: Dreaming of Democracy; 30-minute special report for PBS, June 1989.
  • Producer, Europe's Environmental Problems; 30-minute special report for PBS, April 1990.
  • Producer, East Germany's First Free Elections; 30-minute special report for PBS, March 1990.
  • Producer, Germany's Economic Union; 30-minute special report for PBS, July 1990.
  • Producer, Poland's Economic Transformation; 30-minute special report for PBS, 1990.
  • Producer, Education in Europe: Are There Lessons for America?; 30-minute special report for PBS, November 1988.
  • Producer, Child Care in Europe: A Working Woman's Paradise?; 30-minute special report for PBS, September 1988.
  • Producer, Gun Control in Europe; 30-minute special report for PBS, September 1988.
  • Producer, Bitburg: A Los Angeles Connection; KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, CA, February 1986.
  • Producer, A City Councilman in Trouble; KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, CA, April 1986.

*Teaching Interests

  • Broadcast Media
  • International Media
  • Environmental Journalism

Academic Background


Last updated on July 6, 1999.