John Scully (journalist)

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John Scully was born in Westport, New Zealand, in 1941. A childhood of asthma cut his schooling to three months a year. He never went to university but began filing photographs at a Wellington newspaper in 1958. That was his start in journalism. At twenty-four, he married Toni McCrea and the next day, with his bride, he left for London to join the British Broadcasting Corporation. He started as a summer-relief writer in the TV newsroom but soon rose to the position of duty editor. In 1974, Scully was recruited as the senior field producer for Canada’s latest TV network, Global. He was courted by the U.S. networks NBC and ABC but turned them down and remained in Canada to work for its other two major networks, CBC and CTV. In his career, he has won numerous international awards for news and documentaries. He was until recently senior producer for the Vision TV network’s current affairs programme, "360 Vision", and lives in Dwight, Ontario, with Toni and two cats.

He has "taught approximately 300 TV news, current affairs and video work shops to an estimated 600 participants over the past six years for the C.B.C., Global TV News/Montreal Gazette, and New Delhi Television News. The participants have included senior foreign television correspondents, producers, junior reporters and producers, camera operators, and video editors "^{[citation needed]}

Scully is the author of Am I Dead Yet: A Journalist's Perspective on Terror, and is presently a freelance executive producer, documentary producer/consultant, production supervisor, and a writer and reporter with experience at highest international levels.

Am I Dead Yet: A Journalist's Propective on Terror' traces his extraordinary journey from Vietnam to Baghdad. It explores his thoughts and perspectives on terrorism, its roots and its reasons.

Most recently, from 2003-2007, he has been Senior Producer, 360 Vision, Vision TV, National current affairs program which this year won the highest North American award in its class^{[citation needed]} ; before that, he was News and Current Affairs Consultant, Executive Producer, Trainer, with Clients including Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CTV, Discovery, Global TV, Montreal Gazette, CPAC, New Delhi Television, Jury member Gemini Awards and Qantas (NZ) Journalism Awards. (and guest lecturer Carleton University. Amnesty International writer-specializing in rights of journalists).

From 1990-94 he was News and Documentary Producer, the National, The 5th Estate, The Magazine and CBC Toronto, and then Producer, Camera Operator, Video Editor, CBC South Asia Bureau, New Delhi' Working with reporter Dick Gordon, John established the CBC's South Asia bureau.

In 1974, John was hired from the BBC by the fledgling Global Television Network to help start its news service. Subsequently, he was successively Senior Field Producer, Global TV News, Documentary Producer, W5 and News Producer, CTV News, Documentary Producer for CBC Newsmagazine, and The Journal; 'Executive Producer at CloseUp, TVNZ; Senior Field Producer, The Journal, CBC; and finally Head of Current Affairs, Television New Zealand.

From 1965-74 he had been a Senior Editor, Producer, Writer, BBC TV ' writer; before that, a Radio, TV and newspaper Journalist, in Wellington, N.Z. with the Illustrations Department of the Wellington daily newspaper, the Evening Post and the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation as a radio reporter. He then moved into television reporting and production.

[edit] Journalism awards

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"Gold Medal, Houston International Film Festival: Best Coverage of a Continuing News Story." for a CBC News series that traced the source of one Ontario man’s cancer to a nearby hidden chemical dump, the subsequent police investigation and the jailing of the offender.
"Gold Medal, Houston International Film Festival: Investigative TV Journalism." for an investigation into the crash of a Canadian charter plane that killed over 230 people. The airline subsequently ceased operation.
Silver Medal, New York International Film and TV Festival: Best Documentary." for a one-hour CTV News documentary shot in Asia and Canada that revealed hostility and rejection of Vietnamese, Cambodian and Chinese boat people.
"Bronze Medals, New York International Film and TV Festival and Canadian Association of Journalists: Best Investigative Series." for a five-part CBC news series that, in 1991, uncovered serious and widespread contamination of drinking water across Ontario.
"Bronze Medal, Columbus Film and Video Festival" for an experimental short CBC documentary about a dying Ontario town.
"Bronze Medal, Houston International Film Festival: Investigative Journalism." for a CBC news series that examined serious effects on patients of hospital mergers.
"Gemini Nomination: Best Documentary" for an Half-hour CBC documentary shot in Hong Kong examining the psychological, social and physical impacts on refugees locked in internment camps for up to 10 years.
"Gemini Nomination: Best Documentary" for a One-hour 360 Vision documentary on the disappearance and murder of four old people from a religious home in Ontario, Canada.
"Certificate of Merit, Houston International Film Festival. Best TV Video Production," a CBC investigation into 28 Ontario hospitals that revealed secret testing of patients suspected of HIV infection.