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Jason Motlagh
Biography
Jason Motlagh is an award-winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Formerly Time magazine’s Kabul correspondent, he has reported from more than forty countries and is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Economist, and VQR. In 2010, he won the National Magazine Award for Digital News Reporting for “Sixty Hours of Terror,” a four-part series in VQR on the Mumbai terror attacks. He has since founded Blackbeard Films, an Oakland, California-based company that produces news documentaries for the Al Jazeera English and America networks.
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