Alan Berg

Lecturer

Contact Information:
CMA.B4.132
512-384-0000
alanberg@grandecom.net

During his fifteen-year career as a television news reporter, Alan Berg won more than 20 awards. The Associated Press twice named Berg as the best television reporter in Texas, and he's won two regional Emmy awards as well as a regional Edward R. Murrow award.

Alan Berg graduated from the University of Texas with a journalism degree in 1985. He began his career as a photographer/reporter before eventually moving into full-time reporting. After working at several small market stations, Berg joined WFAA-TV as a general assignments reporter in 1992. He was promoted to Austin Bureau Chief two years later. In this role, he coordinated coverage of the state capitol, south Texas and Mexico. His work earned national recognition within the profession -- he was an invited panelist on political coverage at the RTNDA national conference in 1999, and he participated as a think tank member and panelist in the PBS Democracy Project's Best Practices 2000. His work is noted in the journalism textbook News in an New Century [Lanson/Fought, Pine Forge Press, 1999].

In December 2000, Berg left television news to concentrate on documentary filmmaking. His first hour-long documentary, on heroin addiction, premiered in November 2001 at the Deep Ellum Film Festival in Dallas, where it won "Best Documentary." It also won the special jury award at the Houston International Film Festival and was a finalist in the USA Film Festival's Short Film and Video Competition. It was fed nationally to all PBS affiliates in August, 2002. Berg's most recent documentary "A Place to Dance," won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival in October, 2004 and has been picked up to be developed for theatrical release by Anne Walker-McBay, long-time Executive Producer for Austin-based filmmaker Richard Linklater.

Berg is also the Managing Partner at Arts+Labor, an Austin-based creative content company whose clients include NBC News, CNN and the Fox News Channel.

Recent Courses: J353D Television Reporting