Journalism and Broadcasting

Jon Danzig is a journalist and media director, with considerable experience in the world of publishing, broadcasting and short film production, contributing to a wide range of international newspapers and magazines, television and radio.

Exclusive interview with the British Prime Minister

His first "scoop" was an exclusive interview, as a student at the age of 18, with the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath. Jon was trained at IPC Magazines where he was involved in the launch of a new magazine for teenagers and exclusive interviews with a range of pop stars - such as Elton John, Suzy Quatro, Rod Stewart ....

Editor of United Nations newspaper

Jon has worked on a number of  United Nations projects and helped to produce a series of international Action Packs on subjects such as "World Population" and "World Environment". In Bucharest, Romania Jon was one of the "Fleet Street" team of journalists that set-up and ran a daily newspaper for the United Nations World Population Conference.  He also developed and was editor of a United Nations sponsored newspaper called, "Yes, But What Can I Do?", on how people can act to resolve world problems.

A campaign about coffee

Jon was one of the founders of "Campaign Co-op" in Oxford which organized a national campaign about the plight of the world's coffee pickers.  He researched and co-wrote a book, "The World in Your Coffee Cup," distributed with 20,000 packs of coffee imported from East Africa. For War on Want, he designed their “One Hours Pay” campaign, launched by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and supported by many MPs, celebrities and thousands of working people who pledged one hour of their income to the campaign.

Tracking down moon astronauts

In the USA, Jon was a foreign correspondent for two years, writing extensively for the UK’s national press, such as the Daily Express, Daily Mail and the London Evening News. One of his “scoops” was to interview the US astronauts who went to moon for a feature called, “What on earth are they doing?”.  He was the only British journalist to track down ex-call girl Norma Levy for an exclusive interview on why she had fled to the USA after almost bringing down the British government. 

Later on in the USA, Jon was Creative and Business Consultant for the Golden Hinde, a floating educational museum comprising a full-scale working replica of Sir Francis Drake's 15th Century sailing ship, about which Jon produced a film. On occasions, Jon took the role of Sir Francis Drake himself, appearing on US TV and radio!   

*Click to view one of the US TV interviews!

Tracking down villains

At the BBC, Jon was an investigative journalist, and occasional presenter, on Roger Cook’s "Checkpoint" programme, tracking down villains and shady businesses.  And Jon's series of investigative medical features in The Times, the Daily Mirror and on television won him a Medical Journalism Research Award.

Words, photos and video tapes

Jon has written over two million words for publication and had several thousands of his photographs published around the world. And since founding LOOK-HEAR^®, he has produced around 100 short films.

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