He is co-founder and president of the Globalvision Corporation, and board chair of the Global Center, an affiliated non-profit foundation.
His films and television programs have aired on PBS,[1] BBC, NHK, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and numerous other networks.
During a ten-year stint in print, culminating as Managing Editor of the Boston-area weekly alternative newspaper The Real Paper, O'Connor began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at WGBH-TV in Boston.
[7] O'Connor and Danny Schechter founded Globalvision, a New York City-based TV and film production company.
[10] In 1990, South Africa Now, a public television newsmagazine produced by Globalvision under O'Connor’s presidency, won the George Polk Award for broadcast journalism.