Jason Motlagh

Jason Motlagh is an Iranian-American 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]

Jason Motlagh
Born
Jason Motlagh
Occupationjournalist, writer, photographer, filmmaker
Websitehttp://jasonmotlagh.com

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". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. 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. "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. Archived from the original on September 11, 2016.
  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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