The only reason I pay for cable TV is so I can watch BBC World News before I go to work or when I’m cleaning my apartment. I would also watch CNN International, but it’s guitar-laden always-replaying theme music drives me nuts.
Anyway, on Sunday when I was cleaning I caught the reports from the finalists of the Rory Peck Awards, which is given for excellence in freelance videojournalism.
The winner for the features category was Najibullah Quaraishi, an Afghan journalist, who was embedded with the Hezb-i-Islami insurgent group in northern Afghanistan and recorded some amazing footage, including the mishandling of the of an IED.
Check out the BBC News report here:
My camera is my gun.
Go here for an extended interview with PBS Frontline.
I also recommend checking out some of the winners of other categories, like Roger Arnold’s report on the Bangkok protests and Nick Read’s coverage of the slum children of Mumbai.
I agree. I want to be in his fan club.