Media Tribe

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Media Tribe episodes

  • Nima Elbagir | Being a person of colour in journalism, slavery in Libya and a machete in the DRC

    Nima Elbagir is a Sudanese born journalist and an award-winning international television correspondent. Nima was named the 2020 Royal Television Society 'Television Journalist of the Year' and recently received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors citing her "fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern-day slave market in Libya, to child labour in Congo, and a smuggler's network in Nigeria, documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption."

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    Follow Nima on Twitter and read her profile on CNN.

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    28 min
  • Giles Duley | Marilyn Manson, Kholoud’s story and standing on a landmine in Afghanistan

    Award-winning photographer Giles Duley started off in music and fashion, photographing the likes of Oasis, Marilyn Manson and Pulp. Becoming disillusioned with the commercial world, he went on to document the aftermath of conflict in countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Angola and Rwanda. In 2011 while on foot patrol with the US army in Afghanistan, he stood on a landmine and lost three limbs. Giles is the founder and CEO of the Legacy of War Foundation.

    For more on Giles
    Follow Giles on Twitter and read about Legacy of War, Giles' project documenting the long-term impact of conflict globally.

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    34 min
  • Lyse Doucet | Afghanistan attempted assassination, Syria under siege and dressing up as a man

    We talk about Lyse’s extensive reporting in Syria, particularly her time in besieged Yarmouk where children told Lyse they had to eat boiled grass in order to survive, being present during the attempted assassination of Hamid Karzai, the then Afghan President and growing up in New Brunswick, Canada.

    For more on Lyse

    Follow Lyse on Twitter and view her profile on the BBC here.

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    31 min
  • Rana Ayyub | Being Muslim in India, investigating extrajudicial killings and smuggling a Western journalist into Kashmir

    Rana talks about sneaking a New Yorker magazine journalist, Dexter Filkins into Kashmir, how her reporting led to the arrest of Amit Shah, the now Union Home Minister of India, her undercover sting operation into the 2002 riots in India’s Gujarat province that killed more than 1,000 people and growing up as a young Muslim girl in India.

    For more on Rana
    Follow Rana on Twitter and her stories published in The Washington Post here. You can find her book "Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a cover up" here.

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    27 min
  • Jon Snow | Kicked out of university, the Desert One disaster in Iran and a flight with Idi Amin

    Jon talks about spending time with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and contemplating shooting him, how he knew a young girl who died in the burning of Grenfell Tower, the staggering inequality in Britain and his deep love for Iran. He also takes us back to his Liverpool university days where he spent his time revolting and was eventually booted out.

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    28 min
  • Arielle Duhaime-Ross | Science, Hookworm and Polar Bears

    Arielle talks about being the first climate correspondent on American TV, her near close shave with a polar bear in Greenland and her experience of being targeted with death and rape threats by trolls. She also delves into her important investigation about hookworms in Alabama.

    For more on Arielle
    Follow Arielle on Twitter and her Reset podcast.

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    29 min
  • Media Tribe Preview

    Starting July 15th, Media Tribe introduces the journalist behind the story. Each episode looks at the journalist's journey into the industry, the impact they’ve had along the way and some of their most crazy experiences working in the industry. The stories that never quite made it to air!

    Shaunagh interviews some of the most respected journalists, Oscar-nominated filmmakers and executives from across the globe, including Channel 4’s Jon Snow, BBC’s Kate Adie, The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize winner Malachy Browne, CNN’s Nima Elbagir and Rana  Ayyub of the Washington Post to name a few.

    2 min

About Media Tribe

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Media Tribe is a show that tells the story behind the storyteller. It's an opportunity to step into the shoes of the most respected journalists, directors and media executives.