Nima Elbagir
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The London School of Economics (BSc ) |
Nima Elbagir (
Elbagir joined CNN as a London-based international correspondent.[1] In 2008, she picked up two Foreign Press Association Awards - TV News Story of the Year and Broadcast Journalist of the Year (winner of winners).[2] She had been nominated for other awards including the Amnesty Award for Human Rights Journalism and the One World Broadcast Awards.[3] In 2008, she was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards[4] and in 2016, the society named her Specialist Journalist of the Year.[5] Her work had taken her "to some of the darkest and most difficult places to report on in the past 12 months", said the citation, adding that Elbagir had "demonstrated great determination and bravery as well as deep humanity. She highlighted the plight of young people moving between continents and had the language skills to follow their journey in a way that no-one else could achieve". "Her fearless reports from Africa and the Middle East' meant that she was 'being compared to [CNN's] veteran Christiane Amanpour", wrote media commentator Maggie Brown on 27 February 2016's The Observer. On January 27, 2022 Elbagir was promoted to CNN's Chief International Investigative Correspondent.[6]
Early years
Nima Elbagir was born in
Nima Elbagir was educated in Sudan and in Britain. She holds a
Career
Elbagir began her journalism career with Reuters in December 2002 reporting for them from Sudan, covering the simmering conflict in the country's Darfur region. She moved into broadcast journalism in 2005 joining the launch of More4 News, where her exclusives included exposing rape allegations against the African Union in Darfur,[7] gaining the first interview with the Aegis security company whistleblower on the Iraq "Trophy Videos",[8] interviewing Jacob Zuma in the run-up to his 2006 rape trial and reported from Mogadishu during the US bombing of Somalia in January 2007 [9]
In her first documentary with
(*The BBC's Newsnight broadcast the first Janjaweed admission of Sudanese Government involvement - an interview with a defector on 17 October 2006 [1]. The defector in that instance did not offer Sudanese Army ID however.)
Notes
- ^ Nima Elbagir joins CNN as international correspondent – CNN Press Room - CNN.com Blogs
- ^ FPA Media Awards 2008 - winners | Media | guardian.co.uk
- ^ a b CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Nima Elbagir
- ^ Maggie Brown, "CNN reporter’s award draws Amanpour comparison", The Observer, 27 February 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
- ^ "Television Journalism Awards 2016", RTS website, 17 February 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
- ^ CNN Promotes Nima Elbagir to Chief International Investigative Correspondent -- CNN | Revolving Door
- ^ "CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Nima Elbagir". cnn.com.
- ^ "CNN Profiles - Nima Elbagir - Senior International Correspondent". CNN.
- ^ More 4 News reports inside Somalia - Press Gazette
- ^ Tine, Modou Mamoune. "Esclavage en Libye : voici Nima Elbagir, la journaliste de CNN qui a apporté la preuve irréfutable". SeneNews.com (in French).