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MICHAEL BUERK |
| Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for BBC News in 1984/5. His reports filmed with the Nairobi-based cameraman, Mohamed Amin alerted the world to the extent of the tragedy. They were shown worldwide, to an audience of billions. They led directly to a massive international relief effort itself valued in billions of dollars, which was estimated to have saved over a million lives. |
| He was named Television Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society in 1984 & won a second RTS award that year for foreign reporting. He has won the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) award for factual broadcasting. He's been awarded the Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo Film & Television Festival - Europe's premier prize for television journalism & the United States National Headliner & George Polk awards, two of the three most important honours for broadcasters in the US. |
| In 1988 he was the third recipient of the James Cameron Memorial award given for 'work as a journalist that combined moral vision & professional integrity' in his coverage of the township uprising & state of emergency in South Africa. |
| He has reported for BBC TV News since 1973. He was a network reporter from 1973-1976, industrial correspondent (1976/7), Energy Correspondent (1977/9), Scotland Correspondent (1979/80), Special Correspondent (1980/2), South Africa Correspondent (1983/7). |
| He presented BBC Television's flagship news programme, The Ten O'Clock News & also presented the peak-time BBC 1 programme about emergencies, 999. He is the chairman of the BBC's discussion programme on moral & ethical issues, The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4) & presents a single interview programme about individual dilemmas, The Choice that is a key element of the Radio 4 schedule. In addition to these regular commitments, he chairs, presents, reports for & contributes to a number of other television & radio programmes, mostly for the BBC. These have included major events such as the Royal Wedding of Prince Edward, the Eclipse & the BBC's Millennium night coverage & also major BBC 1 series Tobacco Wars & Soul of Britain as well as the three part series The Hand of God. |
| Apart from broadcasting, Michael lectures on international issues & environmental matters & chairs conferences on current affairs, political & industrial questions. |
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