He later produced investigative reports for ABC News[2] and public radio and television programs and documentary films on social justice issues as well as educational outreach campaigns.

[2][3][self-published source][4] Lichtenstein and his company also made early[citation needed] use of emerging new media, including the 3-D virtual reality community Second Life.

[17] Lichtenstein worked at WBCN (FM), one of the United States' original progressive rock radio stations starting while in junior high school, as a newscaster and on-air announcer.

He was part of the Emmy-winning team with Sylvia Chase and Jeff Diamond that uncovered a fatal flaw in the VW Beetle, and along with Stanhope Gould, Bob Sirkin, and Steve Tello, broke the story of the Atlanta Child Murders in 1979.

He collaborated with producers Lowell Bergman and Andrew Cockburn on COINTELPRO: The Secret War, the first network news report on the FBI's covert program of dirty tricks used to disrupt and neutralize political activists, including actress Jean Seberg, and Black Panther Geronimo Pratt.

Headed by former Watergate counsel Terry Lenzner, Lichtenstein worked with IGI on several investigations including tracking missing royalties for the Beatles' Apple Records.

Lichtenstein's article in the Village Voice, "The Secret Battle for the NEA",[28][self-published source] captured third place in the National Headliner Awards for magazine coverage of a major news event.

[31] Lichtenstein Creative Media produced the documentary "If I Get Out Alive", narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton,[32] which revealed the harsh conditions and brutality faced by young people incarcerated in the adult correctional system.

[33][self-published source] Bill Lichtenstein produced and was director of photography of the award-winning documentary film, West 47th Street,[34] which aired on PBS' P.O.V., and was called "must see" by Newsweek.

Lichtenstein created and was senior executive producer of the national, one-hour weekly series, The Infinite Mind, which for a decade starting in 1998 was public radio's most honored and listened to health and science program.

[40] The Infinite Mind was hosted by Dr. Fred Goodwin, the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health; Dr. Peter Kramer, author of "Listening to Prozac, and John Hockenberry, and broke ground and news on such topics as: addiction; Asperger syndrome; Alzheimer's disease; bullying; chronic fatigue syndrome; depression; mental health and immigrants; posttraumatic stress disorder; postpartum depression; and teen suicide.