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Spencer Critchley is a writer, producer, and communications consultant with experience in journalism, film, digital media, public relations, advertising, and music. As a consultant, he has worked for both of Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, former Congressman Sam Farr, the U.S. Department of Labor, the University of California at Berkeley, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and many others. As a digital media producer, his clients have included David Bowie, Moby, Santana, Britney Spears, and others while he was with Thomas Dolby’s Beatnik Inc; the Silicon Graphics-Time Warner-ATT interactive TV system; Silicon Gaming; and the multiple award-winning Choosing Success multimedia program for CCC/Viacom, described by Wired magazine as "the most inspired piece of educational software ever created." As a journalist, he reported stories for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, the Associated Press, and others, winning awards for investigative reporting from the Associated Press and Public Radio News Directors Inc. His reporting exposed a cult operating in eight U.S. states, and human rights abuses and murders in post-Gulf War Kuwait. For CBC Radio, he was a correspondent and guest host for the national entertainment and popular culture show Prime Time, the host of the syndicated Canada Rocks record review, and a contributor to The Entertainers and other programs. He has written for Business Insider, HuffPost, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Toronto Star, and other publications, and is the host of the Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good podcast. As a composer and music producer, he was signed to Warner-Chappell Music Publishing. He created music for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation including for the Peabody Award-winning CBC Radio drama Paris: From Oscar Wilde to Jim Morrison and the series shows Prime Time, Radio Banned, and Metro Morning. He composed the score (with collaborator Marco D’Ambrosio) and produced the music and sound for the Emmy-winning PBS documentary Blink. Spencer has been an adjunct lecturer in Journalism for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a guest speaker for Stanford University’s documentary film program, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Art Center College of Design, California State University Monterey Bay, the American Constitution Society, MacWorld, Intel Developer World, the New Teacher Center, the California Association of Public Information Officials, and the SXSW, Hot Springs, and Bermuda Film Festivals. He has been interviewed or quoted by ABC News, American History magazine, the AP, Bloomberg Businessweek Radio, the CBC, CBS Radio, CGTN (China), the Christian Science Monitor, CNN India, CTV News (Canada), the Daily Mail (UK), Deutsche Welle, Forbes, Fox News, GB News (UK), The Hill, ITV (UK), LBC Radio (UK), the Los Angeles Times, NBC, NDTV (India), Newsweek, NPR, PBS NewsHour, the Saturday Evening Post, Sky News (UK and Australia), the Toronto Star, Times Radio (UK), TRT World (Turkey), USA Today, and others.
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