Now were banned from South Africa itself, which made production of the show more difficult. Schechter and O'Connor later co-produced Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television, which aired on American public television stations and in over 60 countries from 1992 to 1996. He was the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism. Schechter's film WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception won the Austin Film Festival's Documentary Film Award in 2004. From 1999 to 2010, Schechter was also the executive editor and "blogger-in-chief" at the now-defunct MediaChannel.org, for which he wrote a nearly-3000-word daily blog on media and society. Known for his sharp criticism of corporate media, Schechter was just as scathing in his opinions about PBS, who rejected several of his ideas for documentaries including a biography for American Masters on economist John Kenneth Galbraith. In a 2002 column for Current Schechter wrote, "PBS is a land of niches and bailiwicks, a Japanese-style employment system topped with execs who seem to have cushy jobs for life if they play it safe. They are thus very risk-averse and barely accountable to the public in whose name they are paid.” Schechter died of pancreatic cancer on March 19, 2015 in New York City. Awards and honors 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists (for Falun Gong's Challenge to China) 2004 Austin Film Festival Documentary Film Award (for WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception) 2008 James Aronson Award for Blogging Honorary doctorate from Fitchburg State University Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University Two Emmy Awards, four nominations Productions Film and television Schechter produced and directed many television specials and documentary films, including: Beyond A Long Walk To Freedom (2014) America's Surveillance State (2014) DeWitt Clinton HS: The School That Can Teach Them All, on the fight for Public Education (2013) Who Rules America? (2012) Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time (2010) Barack Obama: The People's President (2009) Boob Tube: Sex, TV and Ugly George (2008) Viva Madiba (2008) A Work in Progress: Danny Schechter and the Journalism of Change (2007) In Debt We Trust: America Before The Bubble Burst (2006) WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (2004) Counting on Democracy (2004), about the 2000 Florida election recount, narrated by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee We Are Family (2002), about a benefit recording of the Sister Sledge song following the September 11, 2001