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Lichtenstein Creative Media, Inc. is an award-winning independent media production company located in Cambridge, MA. LCMedia has extensive multimedia production, distribution and educational/community outreach experience particularly with health, social justice and human rights issues.

LCMedia was founded in 1990 by Bill Lichtenstein, a former investigative producer for ABC News 20/20, World News Tonight and Nightline. His work, and that of LCMedia, has been honored with more than 60 major broadcast awards including: a Guggenheim Fellowship; a George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting, TV and radio’s highest honor; a Media Award from the United Nations; six National Headliner Awards; four Gracie Awards from American Women in Radio and Television; and five Unity Awards in Media from Lincoln University of Missouri for coverage of minority issues.

LCMedia produces The Infinite Mind, public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program.

Each week, the 10 year old series focuses on the latest developments in mental health, the biology of human behavior, neuroscience, and access to care. The Infinite Mind airs in nearly 300 markets across the U.S. including in such Top 10 cities as New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, and Boston, as well as on statewide public radio networks in states including Utah and West Virginia, reaching more than one million listeners weekly.

LCMedia also produced the recent, highly-acclaimed documentary film, West 47th Street, which follows three years in the life of four people with mental illness. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, West 47th Street was winner of "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and DC Independent Film Festival, and sold out theatres across the U.S. and internationally from Vancouver to Paris to Dublin to South Korea. The film aired on the PBS series P.O.V., and was called "must see" by Newsweek and "remarkable" by the Washington Post. It was accompanied by a 100-city educational outreach campaign with screenings held at such venues as Grand Rounds at Yale Medical School, the Carter Center, the Department of Homeless Services in California’s Santa Clara County where it was used to train outreach staff, and in New Mexico, where mental health workers screened it for Native Americans in psychiatric hospitals throughout the state.

LCMedia produced and distributed If I Get Out Alive, narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton. The one-hour public radio documentary examines the conditions and brutality faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. The program won first prize in the National Headliner Awards, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and several other honors.

Current LCMedia productions include Juveniles in Crisis, a documentary film examining the interconnections between the juvenile justice, juvenile mental health, foster care and education systems and Hepatitis C: The Stealth Epidemic, the first documentary film to examine the spread of the lethal virus, and related medical, scientific and social issues, through the lives of those affected.