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Eric Campbell - Reporting on the World

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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2010

Speaking at Engage 2009: Engineers Without Borders National Conference Eric Campbell is one of Australia's most experienced international reporters. In a 20 year career he has worked in more than 50 counties and covered some of the biggest breaking stories of the past decade.

Eric was the ABC's Moscow correspondent from 1996 to 2000, covering upheavals in the former Soviet Union as well as the conflicts in Afghanistan and Kosovo. His stories include the coming of the Taliban to Afghanistan and their ousting five years later, both of Russia's wars in Chechnya, the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo and the overthrow of Milosovic.

Eric has won a Logie Award for news reporting and two New York Festivals world medals for environmental reporting. He was a two-time Walkley Awards finalist for his coverage of the Kosovo war.

In 2005 his book 'Absurdistan' was published, documenting the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth.

Here Eric gave an amazing account of 'reporting on the world' - drawing on his extensive experience as a veteran journalist.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKR0zZYRZhE

it's an easy watch .. funny short stories, one re US Special Ops about 7min i think .. lots of info much of which most of us know, yet new, too .. you will laugh, you
could have some feelings of slight despair 'cuz corruption most everywhere in governments is still so true, yet that's not new and .. lol .. has to be getting better ..

very soon you will see Eric is an analytical, bouncy and cheerful guy (could go through the alphabet, but won't, lol) .. re journalists safety? ..
Russia .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#A_list_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia .. Sri Lanka, the Philippines..

77 Journalists Killed in Philippines since 1992/Motive Confirmed
https://www.cpj.org/killed/asia/philippines/

he mentions as among the most deadly .. he talks of foreign aid, is for it yet reminds there is much corruption and waste in the giving and taking of it .. his views
on Iraq and Afghanistan, most all will appreciate .. he says, in speaking with many, NGOs over years tend to rate Australia and China about on par for bastardry

.. and lol, what does he think of the Australian Defence Force (ADF)?, well, 'i'm sure they do some good things, but how would
i know, i'm just a journalist and they don't tell me anything' .. in his opinion they are "a pack of bastards" .. chuckle, that's at 19:26 ..

please give him at least up to, think it was about 7min .. hope many of you enjoy the wit and insight of this top journalist as much as i do .. :)

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