Best international reporting in the broadcast media dealing with human rights.
AWARD DATE: 2000
AWARD NAME: The Eric and Amy Burger Award 2000
AWARD RECIPIENT: Sorious Samara, Ron McCullagh, Elizabeth Ground
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: CNN Productions and Insight News Television
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Cry Freetown”
With this documentary, Sorious Samura and CNN have told the long-ignored story of the bloody January, 1999, sacking of Freetown, Sierre Leone. During some of the worst violence, cameraman Samura was the only journalist on the scene, filming abuses against a civilian population —including mass amputations. Samura’s film was almost never shown because networks found it too graphic.
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