Nick Paton Walsh blogs from inside Afghanistan, embedded with US forces.
Biography
A Russia specialist, Nick's beat at Channel 4 News has taken him everywhere, from Grozny on the trail of a murdered Russian journalist, to Baghdad and the Washington bureau and George Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq.
Nick joined Channel 4 News as foreign affairs correspondent in September 2006.
Prior to that he was Moscow correspondent for the Guardian for over four years. During this time he covered the Beslan and Dubrovka theatre sieges and the Georgian, Ukrainian and Kyrgyz "revolutions".
Last year he won Amnesty International's Gaby Rado Award for a journalist at the start of their career, and also the EU's Lorenzo Natali Award for human rights reporting.
In 2000, whilst a reporter at the Observer, he was the British Press Awards' Young Journalist of the Year.
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Nick Paton Walsh
