Daniel Ravner

Daniel Ravner (Hebrew name: דניאל רבנר, born April 1, 1976) is an Israeli writer,[1] speaker, and cross media creator.[2][3] He is known for his work on Israeli television and blogging on crossmedia and internet trends.[4][5] In March 2017, Ravner launched his startup news site "The Perspective", which offers his readers contradicting point of view analysis of current affairs.[6][7][8]

Biography

Daniel Ravner was born and raised in Ramla, Israel. He went to Ramla Lod High School and left Israel for Paris and later New York in 1998. He returned to Israel in 2004 and works mainly from Tel Aviv.[9] In 2010, Ravner won a fellowship for the Entertainment Master Class – an international education program.[10][11] In 2008, he earned a BA in Film and Theater in New York City. He interned at MTV networks, earned the "W. Eaton award for excellence in playwriting" and also won the IFC's sponsored Festeyeful "Best of Festival award" for his short film The Art of Talking to Girls.[12] In 2013, Ravner completed a business strategy MBA degree at Ono Academic College.

Media and business career

Among his projects are TV by the People[13][14] (first ever crowd sourced TV format), The Architect[15] (Israel first ARG), RGE's Springboard[16] and other cross media projects for the likes of P&G, FOX international Channels, ProSeiben's Red Arrow, 3M and many more.

In March 2012, Ravner was named one of "40 most promising people under 40 in the Israeli business world" by the Israeli business magazine Globes.[17] He is currently the CEO of Practical Innovation,[18] a cross media strategy and implementation firm.

Ravner served as head of the Digital division at Armoza Formats,[19] head of content at The Box and creative director of Screenz (a cross media joint venture of The Box and Keshet international[20]).

Prior to his position at THE BOX, Ravner wrote for prime time Israeli Television (channel 2 and 10) and worked as associate story editor on Channel 10's prime time show The Sing. He was also as artistic manager of "Smallbama" – theater festival,[21] and wrote the nationally toured comedic play The Chat and its Punishment

The Perspective

During 2016 Ravner started to develop his next venture The Perspective, a site that offers its readers to consider current events, from two opposing points of view. The site launched in March 2017, following a successful seed investment of $550,000.[22][23] In 2019, Ravner was one of the contributors to the book "Digitized: Industry Transformation and Disruption through Entrepreneurship and Innovation", that deals with the digitizing process of various industries, by way of presenting different test cases and what can be learned from them. Ravner's chapters portray his startup "The Perspective".[24] Awards include:

2017 WebAward: News category[25]

2017 Editors and Publishers Eppy Award for Best Innovation Project[26]

2018 The Drum Award for Best Editorial Innovation – Highly Commended Finalist[27] [28]

In September 2021, Daniel published The Perspective's first book, titled What The Hell Are They Thinking?[29] This book is a collection of 100 hotly debated topics that govern readers' lives and covers politics and government, economics, popular culture, sports, health, religion and more. The book features The Perspective website's most popular, most engaged-with "Big Debates," especially updated for this book—with 30 new debates added exclusively for the book's release. These debates were written in a way that tells both sides of every story. Awards include:

2022 Independent Press Award WINNER in the category of Current Affairs.[30]

2022 Nonfiction Book Awards Gold Winner[31]

Blogging

Ravner has a professional blog covering original new media content and TV/WEB relationship.[32] Articles from the blog constantly reappear in other publications.[33] He also holds lectures worldwide on the subject of New and Cross media and workshops on transmedia and new media content in various academic institutions.[34][35]

References

  1. ^ "Daniel Ravner". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  2. ^ "Daniel Ravner Wants To Make TV Innovation Profitable". Jewish Business News. 2014-10-10. Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-09-30.
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Death of Nuance, In Praise of Moderation". BBC. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  4. ^ "G magazin 40 under 40 PDF (hebrew)" (PDF). Globes. March 1, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  5. ^ "MIPTV Trending Topics: "TV is going back to being a TV industry"". Mip Markets Blog. 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  6. ^ The Perespecctive.com
  7. ^ Jonatthn Sheiber, With $500K in financing, The Perspective wants to unite a divided media world, TechCrunch, 30 March 2017
  8. ^ "perspective-media-ltd-wins-2017-webaward-for-the-perspective". Web Marketing association. 2017-09-07. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  9. ^ "PWC entertainment and media outlook report 2013-2017 (hebrew)". PWC. January 2, 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-09.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "Israeli producer wins EMC/C21 scholarship". c21 Media. 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  11. ^ Ravner, Daniel. "Person details". Entertainment Master Class. EMC. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  12. ^ "The Art of Talking to Girls IMDB page". IMDB. 2004-05-11. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  13. ^ "Screentime ShinAwiL launch new 'TV By The People' venture". hotpress.com. 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  14. ^ "Interview with Daniel Ravner: Creating "TV by the People"". blog.mipworld.com. 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  15. ^ "The Architect – Israel's first alternate Reality game". ARGnet. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  16. ^ "RGE Springboard (HaMakpeza) category: acclerators". Startbase. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  17. ^ "G magazin 40 under 40 PDF" (PDF). Globes. March 1, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  18. ^ "Practical Innovation". Practical Innovation. August 1, 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-04-05. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  19. ^ "Armoza hires first digital chief". c21 media. 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  20. ^ "Keshet Broadcasting, The Box partner on Screenz to provide crossmedia products". Broadcast Engineering. 2011-09-11. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  21. ^ "Small Bama 5 review (Hebrew)". mouse.co.il. 2006-11-04. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  22. ^ editorial, alleywatch. "This NYC Startup Just Raised $550K To Help You Understand the Other Side". alleywatch.com.
  23. ^ Jonathan, Shieber (30 March 2017). "With $500K in financing, The Perspective wants to unite a divided media world". techcrunch.com. Retrieved Mar 31, 2017.
  24. ^ Einav, Gali (8 February 2019). Digitized: Industry Transformation and Disruption through Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Emerald publishing. ISBN 9781789736199. Retrieved 5 March 2019 – via Google Books.
  25. ^ "Perspective-Media LTD wins 2017 WebAward for The Perspective". www.webaward.org. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  26. ^ "2017 Eppy Award Winners". Eppy Awards. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  27. ^ The Drum UK (2018). "PERSPECTIVE-MEDIA LTD: THE PERSPECTIVE - Highly Commended". The Drum. Archived from the original on 2022-10-19.
  28. ^ "The Perspective". theperspective.com/. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  29. ^ "GoodReads".
  30. ^ "2022 Winners Independent Press Award". IndependentBookAward. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  31. ^ Hardy, Chela (2022-01-26). "BOOK AWARD WINNER: WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING?: THE 100 DEBATES THAT GOVERN YOUR LIFE, WRITTEN IN A WAY THAT TELLS BOTH SIDES OF EVERY STORY". Nonfiction Authors Association. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  32. ^ "Daniel Ravner's Blog". Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  33. ^ "Daniel Ravner: Can't social media be more than just marketing". Mip Blog. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  34. ^ "Transmedia business models workshop". Ravensbourne College London. 2014-02-19. Archived from the original on 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  35. ^ "MIP formats presentations". MIP. 2014-03-01. Archived from the original on 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
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