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Ron McCullagh
Before founding Insight News Television in 1991, Ron McCullagh worked as a reporter for the BBC for 10 years. He started his career as a local radio reporter for Radio Lancashire in 1980. From 1984 to 1989 he worked as a reporter for BBC Radio 4's 'Today Programme' covering national and international stories. He then worked for a year on BBC Television's 'Breakfast News' as a reporter and was one of the first journalists to do his own filming on a Hi8 camera. He has written for numerous publications including The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.
Awards: In 1982 Ron McCullagh won the Medical Journalists Association Radio Documentary of the Year Award. In 1989 Ron McCullagh was nominated by the BBC for the Sony 'Radio Journalist of the Year' awards, in 1998 at the One World Broadcasting Trust Media Awards he won the UNICEF UK Award for the Advancement of Children's Rights for the report on child workers in Bangladesh which he reported, filmed, produced and edited and in 2000, the documentary Cry Freetown with Sorious Samura which he directed has so far won 14 major awards - including an Emmy and a BAFTA.
Sorious Samura
Sierra Leonean Sorious Samura is a filmmaker of international renown whose documentaries have been recognised worldwide, both for the courage of their photographic journalism and the impact of their message. Having made documentaries and programmes for various media outlets, he now resides in the UK and is board member of Insight News Television.
Samura's debut documentary 'Cry Freetown', a brutal and gripping portrayal of atrocities committed during Sierra Leone's civil war. Risking his life to film the systematic murder of his fellow countrymen, Samura describes what he calls "a nation that was being murdered, a country that was dying, that was being left to die by the western world, by the so called developed world".
Last year Samura first reported on the plight of refugees being sexually abused by aid workers in Guinea. The news feature which went out on broadcasters such as CNN, CBC and Channel 4 caused a stir amongst the international aid community and contributed to the implementation of a new code of conduct.
Samura's films have won many prestigious awards including: a BAFTA, two Emmy Awards, and three Amnesty International Media Awards.
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