NEAL CORTELL, Executive Producer/Director Neal Cortell has a 35-year career in diverse aspects of television journalism. His most current venture is the conception, writing, production, and direction of a political-news documentary entitled THE MEDIA. This 87-minute feature documentary examines the six giant corporations’ control of an estimated 90% of the news media, along with addressing the future state of journalism and the internet.
American Consumer, a successor weekly personal finance program, continues to air over PBS-TV stations nationwide, while a wealth management series is slated to launch in 2011 on National Public Television and the internet, entitled BoomerLife. Neal credits his long journalistic career to his associations with television news distribution and divisions at Reuters, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal TV, Monitor TV, Bloomberg News, and American Forces Network: Europe. He is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston with a major in journalism, minor in television multimedia, and specialty in graphic design at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He has participated in national seminars and professional conferences, along with being the recipient of numerous industry awards. NEAL CORTELL, Artist & Graphic Designer Recently chosen by the prestigious National Arts Club in New York City as an Exhibiting Artist Member (EAM), Neal is proud to be exhibiting his work in the Grand Galley at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, whose juried mission since 1898 is to recognize accomplished world-class artists. Neal has studied under George Dergalis at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts for 17 years, and the Arts Students League under Charles Hinman in New York City for 5 years. Throughout his art career, Mr. Cortell has exhibited at the Copley Society in Boston, Massachusetts; the Cambridge Art Association at Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Boston City Hall, Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery at the Art Students League of New York. He has developed a style influenced by conceptual artists Agam, Vasarely, and Stella, that suggests a visual encounter between one’s mind and eye. In addition, Mr. Cortell has designed on-air and online television graphics that are viewed by worldwide audiences. |
Neal has developed ABC Money Talks, ABC MoneyScope, and BusinessWeek brands, under which he produced and directed 400 national financial programs and 3,000 daily business reports that became the number one-rated of their genre. Economic programming alone under his charge has run in excess of ten years via affiliates of ABC-TV, PBS-TV, and FOX Business Network. 
