OUR MISSION

Formed in 2001, Azimuth Media's mission is to produce and distribute television programs that investigate and explain global security issues to public audiences worldwide. Our programs examine pressing international issues aimed toward fostering public understanding. Working with leading journalists, we strive to make our topics relevant, comprehensible, and engaging. Our programs present points-of-view that are decidedly different, refreshingly insightful, and often surprising.

OUR STAFF

BRUCE BLAIR, Executive Producer, founded Azimuth Media in 2001. He received his B.S. in communications from the University of Illinois in 1970; served as a Minuteman ICBM launch control office in the U.S. Air Force; earned an M.S. in management sciences at Yale University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in operations research at Yale in 1984. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize in 1999 for his work and leadership on de-alerting nuclear forces. Dr. Blair is the author of numerous books and articles on security issues in such publications as Scientific American, National Interest, New York Times and The Washington Post. His production credits include "Missile Wars," FRONTLINE, 2002; "Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War," CNN Presents, 2002; and the global affairs series Foreign Exchange.

GLENN BAKER is a writer-producer with more than 40 documentaries broadcast on PBS exploring global security issues. His productions on nuclear weapons, Cuba, the military and the media, weapons marketing, conflict prevention, and firearms violence have been recognized with more than a dozen national awards. He was Executive Producer for Azimuth Media for the FRONTLINE program "Missile Wars," and wrote and produced "Arming the Heavens," a documentary on the weaponization of space. He produced and directed "Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age" for the PBS series America at a Crossroads. It airs nationwide on May 11, 2008. Previously he worked at the National Security Archive as a research analyst evaluating declassified government documents. He became Co-Director of Azimuth Media in 2001, and in 2006 founded Potomac Media Works.

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STEPHEN SAPIENZA is a producer and writer of television programs for national and international distribution. In 2007, he produced four short documentaries films for a web-based reporting series on HIV in the Caribbean called Heroes of HIV. In 2002, he produced "Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War" for CNN Presents in collaboration with reporter Michael Gordon of The New York Times. The documentary won a 2002 CINE Golden Eagle Award. Since 1992 he has written and produced 45 documentaries broadcast on PBS covering a wide range of military and foreign policy topics. In his 15 years of experience as a video editor and videographer, he has produced award-winning documentaries on topics as diverse as child combatants in Sierra Leone, the Cuban military, and landmine survivors in Cambodia. He currently writes and produces for Azimuth Media's global affairs TV series Foreign Exchange. He became Co-Director of Azimuth Media in 2001.

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MARK SUGG is the Series Producer for Foreign Exchange, responsible for all operational and day-to-day editorial matters related to the television series. Mark has been a non-profit television producer in Washington, DC for twenty years. He was the Director of Television Operations for America's Defense Monitor, a weekly documentary series devoted to international security issues. Previously he was the Director of Ideal Communications, Inc. an independent non-profit production company serving the educational video market and numerous broadcast outlets. Mark has a B.A. in Philosophy from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. Mark is the series producer for Azimuth Media? Foreign Exchange television program.

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OUR ADVISORY PANEL

Members of the advisory panel were selected based on their reputations for distinguished and creative work in journalism and documentary production. Their diverse experience, independent perspectives, and journalistic integrity are an invaluable asset to Azimuth Media documentary projects.

• MARVIN KALB, journalist and scholar; former chief diplomatic Correspondent for CBS and NBC News and moderator of "Meet the Press".

• GORDON QUINN, independent documentary filmmaker; founder of Kartemquin Films and executive producer of Hoop Dreams, Vietnam: Long Time Coming, and many other films.

• JERRY RAFSHOON, feature film executive producer and former White House communications director.

• STEPHEN HESS, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert on the relationship of media and politics.