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Who We Are: PINGNews is the Public Information Network Group and can be found at PINGNews.com. PINGNews receives visitors from over 90 different Countries and more than 1400 cities around the world. We invite collaboration from the online news and information community. You can email us through flickr or find pingnews on MySpace. You can also contribute to the pingnews wiki. Multimedia resources -- photos, video, music samples -- researched or created by PINGNews have been used by a variety of sites, bloggers, and news organizations around the world, including: CBC-TV Factual Entertainment, Radio Nederland, Wired.com, NPR's On the Media, Schmap Guides, 43 Places, NowPublic, Open Source with Christopher Lydon, afromix.org , The Atlantic Online, PodTech, American.com from the American Enterprise Institute , Mobicious, AOL Video, The New jersey Jewish Standard,
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Background: I am a long-time broadcast journalist and an historian with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In addition to my work with pingnews, I oversee a consulting and production firm, Shapinsky MultiMedia, which focuses on multimedia management, helping clients, especially non-profits, get the most out of the new technology at the least possible cost.

My current efforts are an extension of my work in both broadcasting and multimedia. At ABC News, I produced for such shows as Nightline, 20/20, World News Tonight, and PrimeTime Live. On public television, as senior producer at Howard University Television (WHUT), I oversaw a three-part documentary series on the Brown Decision of 1954 and the creation of a four part series On Health with George Strait, which covered various topics including AIDS orphans in Africa, health disparities in the United States, and global epidemics, like SARS.
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I started working in the multimedia arena in 2000, helping build an international webcasting service for the Kaiser Family Foundation. Beginning from scratch, we ultimately covered the 2002 International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Bringing together my interests in education, history, technology, communications, and journalism my goal has been to work with others to make it possible to provide the best news and information through online sharing of resources. Some of this work can be seen at PINGNews.com (AKA The Public Information Network Group) and in the various flickr pools below:



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