Jason Motlagh

Iranian-American journalist, writer, photographer

Jason Motlagh

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Jason Motlagh

Occupation(s)| journalist, photographer, filmmaker
Website| jasonmotlagh.com

Jason Motlagh is an Iranian-American journalist, photographer, and filmmaker.

He has reported for media organisations including The Economist, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, and U.S. News & World Report.[1] Motagh is a Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellow and former Kabul, Afghanistan, correspondent for Time.[2] He was interviewed by Sacha Pfeiffer on NPR's nationally syndicated radio show On Point in 2016 concerning his work following migrants through the Darién Gap.[3]

## Awards

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Motlagh won the National Magazine Award in 2010 for News Reporting for a four-part series on the 2008 Mumbai attacks, titled Sixty Hours of Terror, published in the Virginia Quarterly Review.[4][5] Motlagh also received a Madeline Dane Ross Award from The Overseas Press Club for "best international reporting in the print medium or online showing a concern for the human condition" for his essay The Ghosts of Rana Plaza, a report on the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh.[6][7] The essay also won the Daniel Pearl Award for best reporting on South Asia and was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Award in reporting.[4][8]

## See also

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* Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
* Photojournalism

## References

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1. ^ "About | Jason Motlagh". Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
2. ^ "Jason Motlagh | The Guardian". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
3. ^ "Stories From The Dangerous Darién Gap | On Point". August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
4. ^ a b "Jason Motlagh". SBS.
5. ^ "Virginia varsity runs serial blog on 26/11". The Hindu. November 18, 2009.
6. ^ "Accolades: U.Va. Faculty, "With Good Reason,' Health Centers Honored". States News Service. May 8, 2015. Archived from the original on September 11, 2016 - via HighBeam.
7. ^ Motlagh, Jason (April 18, 2014). "A year after Rana Plaza: What hasn't changed since the Bangladesh factory collapse". The Washington Post.
8. ^ "National Magazine Awards 2015 Finalists Announced". American Society of Magazine Editors. January 15, 2015. Archived from the original on May 5, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2016.

## External links

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* Official website
* Pulitzer Center page on Jason Motlagh
* The Washington Times page on Jason Motlagh
* The TIME Magazine page on Jason Motlagh

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