Alphonso Van Marsh

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Alphonso Van Marsh is an American journalist and war correspondent. He is an African American television network reporter based outside the United States.

Marsh was formally named one of Cable News Network’s (CNN) first “Video Correspondents” in 2003. Often reporting solo from countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, Marsh broke the story of Saddam Hussein’s capture while on assignment in Iraq in December 2003. He used CNN’s digital newsgathering technology in place of traditional two- and three-member newsgathering crews.

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[edit] Background and journalism career

Marsh uses portable video cameras, laptop computers, satellite and Internet technology to report, produce, shoot, edit and transmit stories.[1] Marsh has reported from dozens of countries and numerous war zones. He reported solo from a rooftop in Tikrit - Saddam Hussein’s hometown - with exclusive video of U.S. troops celebrating after their raid.[2] Marsh has embedded with American, British, Canadian and Egyptian troops on various assignments.

Marsh has spent most of his journalism career in the Middle East and Africa, having been based in Cairo, Istanbul, Nairobi and Johannesburg. He started as an intern with CNN’s Investigative Unit in 1993, and has worked as an associate producer, field producer, writer, line producer, interim bureau chief, bureau operations director and correspondent across CNN’s networks.[3] His portfolio of assignments range from covering HIV/AIDS in Africa to conflicts in the Middle East.

Marsh also reports with traditional newsgathering crews. As a general assignment reporter based out of CNN’s London bureau, Marsh has covered topics ranging from the Royal Family, the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, massive flooding in southern England and the hunt for a serial killer.[4] In 2007 Marsh participated in an award-winning series of television and radio reports, original on-line content and digital stills images marking the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

Marsh is known for his ability to cover quirky feature stories–like London’s April 2007 world record attempt to form the largest Monty Python coconut orchestra–as well as breaking news such as his reports on the kidnapping of Western tourists in Egypt in October 2008.[5]

Alphonso Van Marsh holds degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

[edit] Awards and recognition

In 2004, Marsh won a National Headliner Award for his reporting of Saddam Hussein’s capture. He has received honors for his international, breaking news, deadline, feature, documentary, sports, and business reports, as well as for his photography and editing skills.

The New York Association of Black Journalists named Marsh its “Trailblazer” award winner in February 2008 for his body of work, stating, “Alphonso Van Marsh, of CNN has been criss-crossing the world and breaking news in defiance of what critics said he was capable of, in the sometimes fickle and always subjective world of TV News.”[citation needed]

Marsh has been a Washington Post-Donald Graham Fellow, a Scripps Howard Fellow, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education fellow as well as a fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/vanmarsh.alphonso.html
  2. ^ http://www.cnn.nl/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/otsc.van.marsh/index.html
  3. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/vanmarsh.alphonso.html
  4. ^ http://edition.cnn.hu/exchange/blogs/in.the.field/2008/02/diana-inquest-in-hands-of-god.html
  5. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/29/egypt.tourists.kidnapped/index.html

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