Molly Bingham
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Molly Bingham | |
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Born | |
Education | Harvard College |
Years active | 1994 – present |
Website | https://orbmedia.org/ |
Mary C. "Molly" Bingham[1] is an American journalist and filmmaker.
Early life
Molly Bingham grew up in
Career as a journalist
In 1994 she traveled to Rwanda to cover ongoing events after the genocide. From that time until 1998, Bingham focused her work on central Africa, including Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo (then called Zaire). In addition to working as a journalist, Bingham has worked on three projects with Human Rights Watch over the years, one in Burundi, one on small arms trafficking in the Great Lakes region of central Africa and later a short emergency project in Sierra Leone.
In August 1998 Bingham began work as official photographer to the vice president at the White House, a job documenting the life of the vice president that she continued until January 2001.
Bingham returned to Africa in the spring of 2001, working on a story for the
During the 2004–05 academic year Bingham won a mid-career
Bingham co-directed and produced the documentary film Meeting Resistance with journalist Steve Connors. The film was reported over ten months in Baghdad in 2003 and 2004, and features interviews with Iraqis (and one Syrian) directly involved in the violent resistance to the occupation of the country. Meeting Resistance opened in theatres in the U.S. in the fall of 2007 and was released on DVD the following year. The film has subsequently been invited to screen around the world at universities, community groups and film festivals, as well as for US military audiences—including Baghdad where the directors were brought to how the film to military and diplomatic audiences.
The film won the "Golden Prize" at the Al Jazeera Film Festival among others and Bingham and Connors traveled extensively for sixteen months in support of the film and talking about their understanding of and experience in Iraq and how that knowledge translated into current events.
Bingham has expanded her work from photography to include writing and filmmaking. Her written work has been published in
Recent work
Molly is currently president and CEO of Orb Media, a non-profit journalism organization whose research and global reporting produces stories that matter to billions of people around the world. Orb simultaneously publishes with members of its Orb Media Network, a group of the world's agenda setting media, reaching audiences in 180+ countries. By working this way Orb's journalism catalyzes global dialogue, generating change.
Bingham is a trustee of The Listen Campaign, a UK charity that campaigns for the needs and rights of the world's most vulnerable children, and on the advisory board of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom focused on investigative journalism based in Louisville, KY.
External links
- "ORBmedia" Official Website
- Meeting Resistance Official website for Meeting Resistance
- Meeting Resistance at IMDb
Video
- Interview with Bingham and Connors, from Democracy Now! program, October 18, 2007
- Op-Ed: Know Thine Enemy, published on the New York Times website on October 16, 2007
References
- The Courier-Journal. Retrieved March 29, 2015.