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Eric Ortner
Eric Ortner is a producer and talent manager at The Ortner Group and is the principal partner of Vector OMG, a division of Live Nation Entertainment. He is a board member for The Global Poverty Project. In 2015, he was appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He was a senior producer for ABC News 20/20, Primetime, and non-fiction programming. He was also senior producer of ABC Television Network's Six Degrees of Martina McBride. In December 2005, he departed NBC News Today show, where he first began in high school, and was named Senior Producer of ABC's Good Morning America. In 2006, when broadcasting and cable covered new technology, Ortner integrated into Good Morning America. Prior to joining ABC, Eric Ortner worked in the position of senior tape producer for NBC News Weekend Today and also as producer in charge of consumer and investigative stories for NBC News Today. In September 2001, Eric Ortner was profiled by Bob Dotson on Today and in a PoynterOnline article chronicling Ortner's experiences as a volunteer EMS during and following the September 11 attacks. In September 2009, Ortner admiringly referred to Diane Sawyer as a "Super Nova" in The New York Times.…
Article summary
Eric Ortner is a producer and talent manager at The Ortner Group and is the principal partner of Vector OMG, a division of Live Nation Entertainment. He is a board member for The Global Poverty Project. In 2015, he was appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He was a senior producer for ABC News 20/20, Primetime, and non-fiction programming. He was also senior producer of ABC Television Network's Six Degrees of Martina McBride. In December 2005, he departed NBC News Today show, where he first began in high school, and was named Senior Producer of ABC's Good Morning America. In 2006, when broadcasting and cable covered new technology, Ortner integrated into Good Morning America. Prior to joining ABC, Eric Ortner worked in the position of senior tape producer for NBC News Weekend Today and also as producer in charge of consumer and investigative stories for NBC News Today. In September 2001, Eric Ortner was profiled by Bob Dotson on Today and in a PoynterOnline article chronicling Ortner's experiences as a volunteer EMS during and following the September 11 attacks. In September 2009, Ortner admiringly referred to Diane Sawyer as a "Super Nova" in The New York Times.…
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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