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As Executive Producer of Balanced Programming and executive in charge of multifaith programming at CTS, Richard M. Landau is responsible for over a dozen TV series. He works closely with all world religions and cultures to ensure that each has equal access to broadcast airtime.

He is the producer and host of Behind the Story — a series that explores the ethics of journalism and reporting — and Faith Journal, the only weekly program dedicated to interfaith discussion. Richard builds bridges between all faith communities providing a place for the faiths to meet for discussion. He also acts as network watchdog and censor. It is his responsibility to make sure that CTS' broadcast Code of Ethics is upheld, ensuring that no religion is targeted for malice, abusive comment or conversion by any other faith community, and that portrayals of women and men are appropriate for a religious context.

Richard is in a unique position to be both a student and teacher of the world's great religious traditions and cultures. His e-book What the World Needs to Know about Interfaith Dialogue, encapsulates his quarter century of pioneering work in the interfaith field. In the wake of 9/11, the e-book has become valuable as a source. Beliefnet, the internet's foremost site for faith and religion, selected the e-book as companion material to its online interfaith dialogue mini-course. Asked by Beliefnet to moderate an online interfaith dialogue discussion, he also occasionally adjudicates disagreements between world religions and sects. As an Interfaith Relations consultant, his input has been sought by inter-religious dialogue groups and officials in Canada, the United States the United Kingdom. He is a past member of the steering committee of the North American Broadcast Section of the World Association for Christian Communication. He is the founder and president of Interfaith Canada and a past Director and Secretary of Interfaith Ontario. He is a contributing editor to Volume 5 of John Wiley & Sons Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change — the volume looks at faith and the environment.

Richard graduated with a B.A. from the University of Ottawa (1975) and an M.A. from Carleton University (1979). He was an established e-commerce and marketing executive before turning his attention to television and lectures frequently on the subject. A management consultant, he has authored three works on organizational objectives and the retention of information technology workers. In 2000, he was recipient of the Positive Impact Media Choice Award in recognition of his creating inspiring and uplifting stories on television. In 2001, he received an award for his work towards the elimination of racial discrimination. In 2002, he won a Telly Award when Faith Journal was singled out for excellence in non-network television. Later that same year, he won a prestigious Crystal Communicator Award, the highest category for TV production and repeated the feat in 2004.

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