Former cameraman now assistant foreign editor Tim Lambon has filmed in war-zones around the world. But his favourite moment comes from somewhere far more esoteric...
Biography
After over twenty years on the road, Tim Lambon brings his field experience to the Channel 4 Newsdesk as assistant foreign editor.
Starting out as a special forces officer during a short brutal war in Southern Africa in the 1970s, he exchanged his rifle for a camera and a pen and covered the conflicts which dogged the final years of the Cold War.
Fighting didn't stop as the world emerged into the post-Soviet era and Tim went on to cover the Balkan wars from the start of the break-up of Yugoslavia, through the sieges of Sarajevo, Mostar and Srebrenica, to the NATO occupation of Kosovo and the cessation of hostilities in Macedonia.
Besides his conflict coverage, Tim spent seven years working with Greenpeace, covering their actions from Alaska to the Muraroa Atoll and from Novaya Zemlya to Nagasaki.
Since the September 11 attacks Tim has covered George Bush's wars across the near and Middle East, leaving New York for Afghanistan just 10 days after covering the Twin Towers aftermath.
Preceding coalition forces into Kabul, he filmed the liberation of a city he has covered since the start of his journalistic career 20 years ago when he accompanied Mujahadeen forces into Afghanistan as they fought against another imperial power - the Soviet Union.
Tim is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Directing & Editing at the New York Television Awards and, as a team member, has contributed to three Royal Television Society awards and two British Film and Television Society awards.
Tim was also the video producer of Channel 4 News's Baghdad team, which won the International Emmy in 2003 for coverage of the most recent war in Iraq. A second International Emmy was awarded in 2004 for his Channel 4 News team's coverage of the Madrid train bombings.
Over a period of five years, in weekly radio column 'The View from Here', Tim reported on the major foreign news stories of the day for South African talk radio stations, 702 and CapeTalk.
He has also contributed to radio programmes in Ireland and Canada and periodically provided articles for, amongst others, The New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, the Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and the Christian Science Monitor.
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