New Media Awards 2007 Atos Origin

Big Picture TV

http://www.bigpicture.tv

Nominated in Contribution to civic society award category.

Marcus Morrell is a social entrepreneur and an award-winning video journalist. He founded Big Picture TV in 2003 as one of the first web-based video channels to go online and the very first to focus on issues relating to global sustainability. The website streams solution-oriented video clips of world leaders speaking about the challenges currently facing global society. Big Picture TV is free to watch and attracts a monthly audience of 15,000 users from more than 35 countries. The site broadcasts on demand videos of over 140 leading scientists, journalists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, NGO directors, academics, environmentalists and activists.

2 nominations from readers

  • Big Picture TV, run by Marcus as a free media channel, streams informational videos on subjects relating to long-term global sustainability. Big Picture TV’s short video clips are of world renowned thinkers speaking on a wide range of social and environmental issues including climate change, energy, transport, design, corporate social responsibility and trade. Our panel of speakers features distinguished names such as HRH Prince of Wales, Nelson Mandela, Dame Jane Goodall, Dame Anita Roddick and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. With over 140 speakers currently on the site, Big Picture TV aims to help disseminate solution-oriented thinking and bring the web community closer to the individuals driving forward the sustainability movement. Recognizing that there was and still is a significant information gap on these critical issues in the Media, Marcus conceived, funded, designed, built and promoted this free educational channel. He had the dedication, courage and determination to produce several hundred “talking head” video clips by personally interviewing and filming world leaders in diverse specialist fields. His vision, along with a persuasive ability to enlist the help and support of others, has resulted in a remarkable entrepreneurial achievement worthy of public recognition.

    Nominated by Marcus Morrell, 31 May 2007

  • Big Picture TV, run by Marcus as a free media channel, streams informational videos on subjects relating to long-term global sustainability. Big Picture TV’s short video clips are of world renowned thinkers speaking on a wide range of social and environmental issues including climate change, energy, transport, design, corporate social responsibility and trade. Our panel of speakers features distinguished names such as HRH Prince of Wales, Nelson Mandela, Dame Jane Goodall, Dame Anita Roddick and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. With over 140 speakers currently on the site, Big Picture TV aims to help disseminate solution-oriented thinking and bring the web community closer to the individuals driving forward the sustainability movement. Recognizing that there was and still is a significant information gap on these critical issues in the Media, Marcus conceived, funded, designed, built and promoted this free educational channel. He had the dedication, courage and determination to produce several hundred “talking head” video clips by personally interviewing and filming world leaders in diverse specialist fields. His vision, along with a persuasive ability to enlist the help and support of others, has resulted in a remarkable entrepreneurial achievement worthy of recognition.

    Nominated by Marcus Morrell, 31 May 2007