Jason Motlagh

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Jason Motlagh
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Jason Motlagh
Occupation(s) journalist, photographer, filmmaker
Website jasonmotlagh.com

Jason Motlagh is an Iranian-American journalist, photographer, and filmmaker.

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He has reported for media organisations including The Economist , The Washington Post , The New Republic , The Atlantic , The Christian Science Monitor , and U.S. News & World Report . [1] Motagh is a Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellow and former Kabul, Afghanistan, correspondent for Time . [2] He was interviewed by Sacha Pfeiffer on NPR's nationally syndicated radio show On Point in 2016 concerning his work following migrants through the Darién Gap. [3]

Awards

Motlagh won the National Magazine Award in 2010 for News Reporting for a four-part series on the 2008 Mumbai attacks, titled Sixty Hours of Terror, published in the Virginia Quarterly Review . [4] [5] Motlagh also received a Madeline Dane Ross Award from The Overseas Press Club for "best international reporting in the print medium or online showing a concern for the human condition" for his essay The Ghosts of Rana Plaza, a report on the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. [6] [7] The essay also won the Daniel Pearl Award for best reporting on South Asia and was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Award in reporting. [4] [8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About | Jason Motlagh". Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Jason Motlagh | The Guardian". TheGuardian.com . Retrieved August 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Stories From The Dangerous Darién Gap | On Point". August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Jason Motlagh". SBS. Archived from the original on August 10, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Virginia varsity runs serial blog on 26/11". The Hindu. November 18, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Accolades: U.Va. Faculty, "With Good Reason,' Health Centers Honored". States News Service. May 8, 2015. Archived from the original on September 11, 2016 – via HighBeam.
  7. ↑ Motlagh, Jason (April 18, 2014). "A year after Rana Plaza: What hasn't changed since the Bangladesh factory collapse". The Washington Post.
  8. ↑ "National Magazine Awards 2015 Finalists Announced". American Society of Magazine Editors. January 15, 2015. Archived from the original on May 5, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
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