Jason Motlagh

Jason Motlagh
Born Jason Motlagh
Occupation journalist, writer, photographer, filmmaker
Website http://jasonmotlagh.com

Jason Motlagh is a journalist, writer, photographer, and filmmaker who 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] He is a Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellow and former Kabul 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]

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]

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References

  1. "About | Jason Motlagh". Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  2. "Jason Motlagh | The Guardian". Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  3. "Stories From The Dangerous Darién Gap | On Point". Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  4. 1 2 "Jason Motlagh". SBS.
  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. via HighBeam (subscription required). May 8, 2015.
  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.

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