Iain Overton
Iain Overton is a British documentary maker born on 3 August, 1973. He has worked for the BBC and ITN and worked in over 85 countries around the world.
Educated at Downing College and Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, Iain Overton's film work has won him various awards. In September 2009 he was appointed the first managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.[1] In this role he has overseen a number of investigations, including the Wikileak's Iraq War Logs.[2] In 2010/2011, under his editorship, the Bureau won an Amnesty Award,[3] a Thomson Reuters Award[4][5] and was shortlisted for an IRE award[6][7] for its reporting.
In 2002, he uncovered new historical evidence which identified Harry Band as a Canadian soldier who had been crucified in Belgium during the First World War.
In 2004 he won a Scottish BAFTA for the exposé Security Wars,[8] a BBC film highlighting corruption in the security industry in Scotland.[9] In 2005 he won a Peabody Award for a BBC report on counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry.[10][11] In that year he was also a producer on the series that won, with reporter Simon Reeve, a One World Award for best popular feature for the series Places that Don't Exist for the BBC.[12]
In 2006 he was voted best Broadcast Journalist by the UK bar council for a news report on the proposed changes to the coroners’ system, which would have made coroners’ investigations into deaths abroad discretionary rather than compulsory.[13] In 2009 he was shortlisted for a One World award for an expose on child trafficking in India.[14] In the same year he produced/directed a one hour film Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo - an Alice in Wonderland foray into the modernist architecture of Tokyo. It premiered at Asia House in March 2009 and was shown at a special screening at the Barbican in December 2010.[15][16]
[edit] References
- ^ Greenslade, Roy (2009-09-21). "ITN's Overton to be investigative bureau's managing editor". guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/sep/21/investigative-journalism-itn. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ Oliver, Laura (2010-10-28). "The bureau, the whistleblower and the data journalist: how WikiLeaks' Iraq war logs made the news". Journalism.co.uk. http://www.journalism.co.uk/news-features/the-bureau-the-whistleblower-and-the-data-journalist-how-wikileaks-iraq-war-logs-made-the-news/s5/a541252/. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Amnesty announces 2011 Media Awards winners". Amnesty International. 2011-05-24. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=19475. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Winner Announced". The University Association for Contemporary European Studies. 2011. http://reportingeurope.eu/548/winner-announced/. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bureau wins the Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe award". Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 2011-06-01. http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/06/01/reporting-europe/. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Honoring the best in investigative journalism". Investigative Reporters and Editors. 2011. http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/contest/. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bureau nominated for IRE award". Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 2011-06-23. http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/06/23/bureau-nominated-for-ire-award/. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ Cowie, Eleanor (2004-11-15). "Scotland joins the world of screen glamour Wind and rain cannot stop the stars coming out in Glasgow". Herald Scotland. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/scotland-joins-the-world-of-screen-glamour-wind-and-rain-cannot-stop-the-stars-coming-out-in-glasgow-1.70582. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Frontline Scotland". BBC News Online. 2004-05-25. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3611169.stm. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bad Medicine". BBC Two. 2005-07-12. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4656623.stm. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "This World: Bad Medicine". The Peabody Awards. http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1418. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Awards 2005". One World Media. http://oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/previous_awards/2005/. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bar Council Launches 2007 Legal Reporting Awards". General Council of the Bar. 2007-09-06. http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/news/press/512.html. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Shortlist 2009". One World Media. 2010. http://oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/previous_awards/2009/shortlist_2009. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Georgia Hanias". Ballou PR. http://www.balloupr.com/the-team/the-team/9768599. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "december 2010" (PDF). The Barbican Centre. pp. 7. http://www.barbican.org.uk/media/upload/artform%20news/0Dec10Guide%20final.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
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- Iraq War Logs [1]
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