Doug Terry, biographical information

Before moving to Washington, DC, Terry worked as local television reporter and news anchor at the ABC Network television station in Dallas. Later, he served as Austin Bureau Chief and. after that, as managing editor/news director of a regional radio network of 85 radio stations covering three southwestern states.

He has also worked for the CBC and many other radio news outlets around the country as a freelance reporter. As manager of a television news bureau in DC, Terry and his reporting staff were seen on more than 80 network affiliated television stations throughout the United States as well as many PBS stations. In his news bureau, Terry pioneered in the use of satellite technology to transmit news from Washington, DC, to local stations around the United States. He has also reported from numerous countries, including Russia, France, Jamaica, Panama, Haiti, England, Portugal and others.

He was a pioneer in the development and application of digital video, creating a test project that was viewed by two major networks and CNN in 1992. He created a microwave system for Fox News in Sacramento, California and a distribution system for a cable news channel in southern California that saved the channel millions in operating expenses. He worked with the government and a broadcaster in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) to create a new international distribution channel, via satellite, for a channel in Kurdistan. That channel now is broadcast around the world, including the U.S.

At present, Terry works as a technologist (fiber optics, digital video networking, digital video systems, etc.) on a consulting and development and implementation. As owner/Manager of Alexis Media Systems, Terry produces field production for television programs. The work of Alexis Media has appeared on all four over the air television networks and national cable networks, including Lifetime, CNN, Discovery, HGTV, FX Channel and many others, including local television stations and PBS stations and regional networks. Alexis Media employs award winning, highly experience photographers for its productions and prides itself on smooth integration with the needs of other producers and companies, particularly those in the production centers of New York and Los Angeles. Alexis Media has worked with LA based production companies for almost 20 years.

Of particular concern now is the transition of print and electronic media to the digital age. Terry is working on potential solutions to the problems faced by newspapers which are losing advertising, but not able to replace the lost revenue with internet distribution. 

Terry owns and manages Alexis Media Systems, through which he does his consulting work as well as television production.

Alexis Media has “pioneer status” in the early development of digital  video, now seen around the world, and in proposing and testing hand carried, digital video transmission systems (satellite video phones). It was one of the first organizations in the world to realize the benefits of digital technology in allowing news gathering from any location on the planet.

He has worked on informal disaster relief for more than 20 years. Drawing on his experience covering hurricanes as a reporter, Terry has offered coordination and other assistance in major events, including  9-11, 2001. He was in the New Orleans area as Hurricane Katrina moved through. To expand and professionalize these efforts, he has formed The Emergency Response Network,  a Maryland non-profit.

Terry spends a significant amount of his time on artistic photography and he has been exhibited through a commercial gallery in Leesburg, Virginia and, in 2024, Mexico City.  His abstract, light images photographs involve making the full spectrum of colors from sunlight and photographing the resulting abstract images.

Terry is an avid cyclist who rides as much as possible each year and completed three 100 mile, single day rides as well as participating in others, like the Mountains of Misery ride in Southern Virginia. His next favorite activities, after reading and writing, revolve around travel and family. 

He studied history in college and has enrolled in special, shorter courses of study at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania. He published a book of poetry, Broken Pieces, several years ago.

photographs made by Doug Terry can be seen on this page.