InterMedia counts on the vision, leadership and experience of its Board of Directors to steer it successfully into its second decade. Board members bring to the table decades of broadcasting and international expertise. Led by Ambassador Richard Carlson, members reflect a variety of disciplines and experiences working in government, media, industry and academia.
Directors
Ambassador Richard Carlson - Chair
Richard Carlson—former director of Voice of America (VOA) and president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and current vice-chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies—has a resume that encompasses a wide spectrum of experience in media and public policy. For the last six years of the Cold War, he was director of VOA—in fact, he is the second-longest serving director in the organization’s 50-year history. He oversaw a network which broadcasts 24-hours-a-day in 50 languages to an audience of more than 130 million. He was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve as ambassador to the Seychelles; has led official U.S. delegations to China, the former Soviet Union, Georgia and Moldova; addressed the Israeli Knesset and the British House of Commons; produced, written and directed documentaries for ABC and NBC for which he was awarded three Emmys; served as the head of ABC’s investigative unit in Los Angeles; been involved with negotiations on behalf of the United States with at least a dozen foreign governments including China, Korea, Israel and Liberia; was a columnist for UPI; observed the first democratic elections in South Africa and parliamentary elections in Albania; and testified dozens of times before the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees and many others. He also led U.S. government overseas television broadcasting, including the USIA Film and TV Service and World Net.
Barry Fulton - Vice Chair
Dr. Barry Fulton is a Research Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University and a consultant at the Department of State. He serves as a board member of InterMedia, the Public Diplomacy Institute, and the Salzburg Seminar. He is a senior consultant for PRO-telligent, an associate of Global Business Access, and a member of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs. He is the author of Leveraging Technology in the Service of Diplomacy: Innovation in the Department of State and project director of the CSIS study, Reinventing Diplomacy in the Information Age. He was Associate Director of the United States Information Agency from 1994 to 1997. During a 30-year career with the United States Information Agency, he served in Brussels, Rome, Tokyo, Karachi, and Islamabad. He established and directed the American Forces Radio and Television Service in Turkey as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Fulton holds a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Illinois, an MA in broadcasting and BS in electrical engineering from Penn State.
Graham Mytton
Dr. Mytton brings to the InterMedia Board 40 years’ experience studying the media, beginning in 1966 as a postgraduate political science student at the University of Manchester. He undertook practical research into the media in Tanzania, spending a year as a research associate at University College in Dar es Salaam in 1967-1968. After completing his studies in Manchester, Dr. Mytton became the Zambia Broadcasting Services’ Research Fellow at the Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia—a post he held until 1973. Dr. Mytton later worked for the BBC, eventually becoming head of IBAR, the audience research office of the World Service, and Controller of Marketing for the BBC World Service. He is now an independent market and audience research consultant and trainer, and the head research consultant for the African Public Broadcasting Foundation.
John Fox
Mr. Fox is president of I-Media, an international media development firm
providing strategic, advocacy and sustainability assistance, project management
and evaluation, distribution and technical services to broadcasters, public
and private donors, and non-governmental organizations. He has directed
the Independent Broadcasting Project
for the Public International Law and Policy Group, supporting Southeast
European broadcasters with development, regulatory and technical assistance
needs. He was special advisor to the Network Media Program
of the Open Society Institute, where he developed advocacy, co-funding
and partnerships for indigenous media in transition and post-conflict countries. Mr.
Fox served as director of the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation Washington
office; as senior policy officer in the Europe and Central Asia Division
of the World Bank; and as regional officer for Eastern Europe in the Office
of Policy and Planning at the U.S. Department of State.
He has worked for several U.S. print and broadcast media, and has played
an active role in a broad range of non-governmental groups in behalf of
human rights and free media around the world.
Douglas A. Boyd
Dr. Boyd, chief of staff in the Office of the President at the University of Kentucky and a professor in its Journalism and Telecommunications department, has a long and distinguished academic career. Since 1987, he has served in various capacities at the University of Kentucky, including director of the Office of International Affairs and professor and dean of the College of Communications and Information Studies. Prior to that, he held posts at the University of Maryland in College Park and the University of Delaware, and was a Fulbright Professor at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo. Dr. Boyd’s experience also includes work at Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Office of International Broadcasting and Audience Research in London, and he currently serves as a consultant to the Broadcasting Board of Governors. He is the author of Broadcasting in the Arab World and co-author of Video Cassette Recorders in the Third World, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication and the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.