Church Center Fills Electronic Media Post
Episcopal News Service. March 26, 1987 [87066]
NEW YORK, (DPS, March 26) -- Clement W. K. Lee has been named Director of Electronic Media in the Episcopal Church Center's Office of Communication by Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning.
The post combines the office's previous work in radio, television and audio-visuals with new assignments to increase the use of emerging media technologies for church purposes.
Lee said the expanded media will include broadcast and cable-tv programming and public service spots, satellite network programs and video conferences, media education events with diocesan communicators, corporate media resources and services for Church Center program units, news and talk-show interview arrangements and multi-image presentations. He will also participate in EPINET, the Church's computer network, to enable cooperative projects with other media specialists here and through-out the Anglican communion.
Three major priorities for the electronic media unit are planning for an intensified and intentional "pro-active" media outreach, a directive from Browning; "On to Detroit," developing media resources in support of the General Convention; and joining Anglican communicators in preparation for the 1988 Lambeth Conference.
Several present media projects will be curtailed to permit development of the new emphases, he added. But the satellite-delivered cable-tv Episcopal programs in the "One In The Spirit" series and support of Ecumedia News Service, which operates from the Church Center, will be continued.
Lee previously held communication management positions with the Metropolitan Detroit Council of Churches, the American Bible Society and the Lutheran Council in the USA. Most recently he served as the telecommunications director of the Lutheran Church in America. He started his work with the Church Center on March 9.
He has masters degrees in communication and divinity, is on the clergy roster of the Lutheran Church in America and is a member of: the board of managers of the National Council of Churches Communication Commission, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the International Television Association, the Association of Educational communication and Technology and the Public Service Satellite consortium. He has chaired the North American Broadcast Section/World Association for Christian Communication and was a national convention chairman of the Religious Public Relations Council. He currently serves on the award juries of the Council of Churches of the City of New York Communications Department and the International Film & TV Festival. His productions have appeared at Milwaukee's convention center; Cobo Hall, Detroit; and the Seattle Opera House, during national church events.
Also, he has done media consulting with Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Wheat Ridge Foundation and Concordia College, Westchester County, N. Y. and the World Council of Churches, Geneva.