Ep 75: Sophie Eastaugh, BBC, NPR and CNN. iPhone filmmaker and more!

Sophie Eastaugh is a reporter and producer for TV and radio. Her work has appeared on the BBC, NPR and CNN. She produced a series of stories in Colombia for the BBC, including a film and radio package about the rise of deforestation in the Amazon, and a film about a young woman diffusing landmines left after decades of civil war. For CNN she made a short film in Senegal, shot on iPhone, about a football academy training aspiring soccer stars.Sophie’s writing has appeared on The Guardian, Al Jazeera and VICE. She is currently finishing a podcast about how Bristol is confronting its slave trade history, for NPR’s Code Switch. In 2016 she did a fellowship with the International Women’s Media Foundation to report from the US-Mexico border on migration issues. Her writing has appeared on The Guardian, Al Jazeera and VICE.She tweets @SophieEastaughEmail : [email protected] : https://www.sophieeastaugh.comIf you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at [email protected], you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: www.kweli.tv/programs/the-peopl…xton?autoplay=trueDamien Swaby Social Media Links:Instagram www.instagram.com/damien_swaby_video_producer/Twittertwitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src…erp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor