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THE RORY PECK AWARD FOR HARD NEWS



James Brabazon "Liberia – Attack on Monrovia"



Brabazon had spent many months travelling alone in the Liberian jungle, the only journalist to have lived with and filmed the LURD rebels. In June 2003, he returned to witness their second attack on the capital, Monrovia. As the rebels were savagely beaten back, James and his crew decided to withdraw. Later they learnt that the government had issued a death warrant against them.

"Liberia - Attack on Monrovia"

James Brabazon's comments:



"During the month of filming I received no direct outside help, though I spoke regularly with Camerapix Managing Director Salim Amin by satellite telephone.



When I had withdrawn from Monrovia, he told me that the British and American governments had advised him that the Liberian government had issued a death warrant against me and the AP, and that they had dispatched soldiers to find and kill us.



This had been done because my radio and TV reporting from rebel-occupied Monrovia was directly contradicting the Liberian government’s false press information."



Glenn Middleton "News Portfolio"



Middleton’s portfolio contains powerful and disturbing images of some of the world’s major ongoing issues. As he records famine in Angola, aids in Botswana, housing shortage in South Africa, child soldiers in Liberia, his own involvement is evident

"News Portfolio"

Glenn Middleton's comment:



"As we touched down in a remote area east of Luanda I suddenly felt weak. This was Angola and it doesn¹t get much worse, even before we got to our destination I could picture the images I would have to witness.



I started filming in a tent where many children lay helpless, waiting, dying...there were no need for words, all I could hear was the cry for help..."



Fred Scott "Northern Iraq Friendly Fire Incident"



When an American air strike went disastrously wrong and hit a convoy of US and Kurdish fighters rather than Iraqi positions, Scott was the cameraman who, although injured, filmed the scene of carnage, his own blood running down the camera lens.



In the middle of all the chaos, despite all efforts to save him, the crew’s translator, Kamaran, died. Scott filmed a report from John Simpson – also wounded by the bombing – that became one of the most memorable images of the war.

"Northern Iraq Friendly Fire Incident"

Fred Scott's comment:



"That evening John Simpson and I edited two television packages with salvaged equipment and whatever energy we had left.



This process was further complicated since both of us had been partially deafened by the blast. The shock of survival and loss hadn't hit yet. The news piece was simply a straight telling of events that day, culminating in Kamaran's death."