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Adam B. Ellick
International Senior Video Correspondent, The New York Times based in Europe / Member of the Innovation Task Force, The New York Times
Adam B. Ellick is Senior Video Correspondent at The New York Times who reports on the world in video and print. Based in Europe and towing a backpack and small camera, Ellick has visited more than 70 countries. He was the first reporter to “discover” Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai when he brought her story to the world in a 2009 documentary reported over six months alongside her family.
In 2013-14, he worked on a full-time innovation committee inside The Times that researched and authored The Innovation Report.
In the field, Ellick witnessed the Asian Tsunami from Indonesia, covered Hugo Chavez’s violent land reforms in Venezuela, investigated Russia’s anti-American youth groups, road-tripped across Iran documenting the views of ordinary Iranians, and reported on the Arab Spring protests from Egypt and Bahrain.
In 2014, he traveled with Nicholas Kristof to Myanmar to produce a short documentary called 21st-Century Concentration Camps about nearly 1 million Muslims confined in camps without healthcare. He also co-produced the most watched video on nytimes.com in 2014 about the lone survivor of an ISIS massacre.
Ellick’s coverage of Pakistan was awarded the 2010 Daniel Pearl Award. He also won consecutive Overseas Press Club awards, and he has been thrice nominated for The Livingston Award, which honors journalists under the age of 35. In 2013, he won the Justice Award from The Cinema for Peace foundation.
Before joining The Times, Ellick was a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia, and spent four years reporting across Eastern Europe and Russia. He started his career at the Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow. Ellick is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, and has taught journalism in many countries. He is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
In 2013-14, he worked on a full-time innovation committee inside The Times that researched and authored The Innovation Report.
In the field, Ellick witnessed the Asian Tsunami from Indonesia, covered Hugo Chavez’s violent land reforms in Venezuela, investigated Russia’s anti-American youth groups, road-tripped across Iran documenting the views of ordinary Iranians, and reported on the Arab Spring protests from Egypt and Bahrain.
In 2014, he traveled with Nicholas Kristof to Myanmar to produce a short documentary called 21st-Century Concentration Camps about nearly 1 million Muslims confined in camps without healthcare. He also co-produced the most watched video on nytimes.com in 2014 about the lone survivor of an ISIS massacre.
Ellick’s coverage of Pakistan was awarded the 2010 Daniel Pearl Award. He also won consecutive Overseas Press Club awards, and he has been thrice nominated for The Livingston Award, which honors journalists under the age of 35. In 2013, he won the Justice Award from The Cinema for Peace foundation.
Before joining The Times, Ellick was a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia, and spent four years reporting across Eastern Europe and Russia. He started his career at the Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow. Ellick is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, and has taught journalism in many countries. He is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
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