Jay Tuck

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Jay Tuck

Jay Nelson Tuck, Jr. (born April 25, 1945) is an American journalist, television producer, author, voice talent and lecturer.

During his 35-year-employment with ARD German Television, Tuck worked as investigative reporter, war correspondent in Iraq and Executive Producer of the daily network news magazine ARD-Tagesthemen.

Early life[]

Jay Nelson Tuck, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York as son of newspaper journalist Jay Nelson Tuck.^[1] He attended Wayne High School in New Jersey and studied at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. There he shot his first student films, The Date^[2] and Short Circuit.^[3] During his studies he also held jobs as a student economist at the Federal Trade Commission, the US Treasury and as a social worker in Harlem. Tuck began his journalistic career at age twenty as radio reporter for WYSO, the college's FM station.^[4]

Civilian service in Europe[]

As a recognized conscientious objector during the Vietnam War he travelled to Germany, where he served his two-year civilian service in Hamburg. During this time, Tuck shot various amateur films, including Good Day^[5] with the British rock group Nektar.

ARD German Television[]

His German media career began in 1971 as a free-lancer for local TV at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hamburg, where he interviewed many entertainment personalities, including Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Mick Jagger, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol.^[6] For thirty years, Jay Tuck was employed full-time by NDR and the ARD network, first as investigative reporter for NDR-Panorama and WDR-Monitor, later as war correspondent in both Gulf Wars.^[7]

Free-lance journalist[]

In Germany, reportage from Jay Tuck appeared in Stern, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Zeit-Dossier and Zeit-Magazin. Internationally he has written for Oggi (Italy), Panorama and Nieuwe Revu (Netherlands), Vi Menn (Norway), Le Point (France), Playboy (Germany) and Time Magazine (USA).^[8]

Author[]

Books[]

• High-Tech Espionage, St. Martins Press, New York, ISBN 9780708832714
• The T Directorat, St. Martin's Press, New York, ISBN 9780312908355
• High-Tech Espionage, Sidgwick & Jackson, London ISBN 9780283992926
• Die Computer-Spione, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3453020081
• La Guerre des Ordinateurs, Plon, Paris 2002, ISBN 9782259014212
• Il gioco della conchiglia (Computer Connection), Adnkronos libri, Rome 1985
• Ο πόλεμος των computers - Οι Πειρατές της Πληροφορικής (War of computers - Pirates of Information), Roes Publishing, Athens, 1986)
• Direktorat T, Kriminalistik-Verlag, Köln 2002, ISBN 9783783213874

Airtime Dubai and Al-Jazeera[]

After retiring from ARD German Television, Jay Tuck founded Airtime Dubai Ltd^[9] in the United Arab Emirates, an international media company^[10] with close contacts to the Arab broadcasters of the region. His weekly technology magazine Understanding Tomorrow (عن كثب) was on-air for five years and watched by 40 million viewers on Al-Jazeera (Arabic). Airtime Dubai also produces corporate image videos.^[11] Its music arm, Airtime Records, released the top-selling CD "Dubai Nights, Volume One".^[12]

Voice work[]

Tuck has continued his work behind the microphone since his university days, as radio DJ on the north German FM station NDR-2 (“Die Jay Tuck Show”) and in commercials and cinema trailers.^[13] His voice can be heard on hundreds of TV commercials,^[14] and as the narrator of the Hollywood thriller Alone in the Dark starring Christian Slater.^[15]

Recreation[]

Jay Tuck during the Siberian Ice Marathon in Omsk, Russia, 2001

Tuck is a long-distance runner. In the year 2000 he became the first American to run the Siberian Ice Marathon^[16] in Omsk, Russia.

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