About

adilbradlow

Front-line journalist who has covered the major conflicts of the past two decades – from the Rwandan genocide to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Award-winning journalist and videographer MENA and AFPAK area expert M.A student – Department of War Studies: King’s College London I began working as a journalist in South Africa in the 1980s as a photographer covering the Anti-Apartheid struggle for the international news agency the Associated Press. After 13 years I switched to television and began working for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Within a year I had won the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award and was working for CNN based out of their London bureau. After five years covering the War on Terror I was transferred to Jerusalem where I was the West Bank and Gaza cameraman for the network. In 2007 I was hired by CBS News where I worked for two years with Lara Logan, CBS News’ Chief International Correspondent. I then went freelance in Johannesburg working for a variety of news companies including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News and ZDF, both inside South Africa and beyond. Specialties: I have specialised in working in hostile environments and have covered wars across Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia and the Middle East.

I have worked for the BBC in Africa, the Middle East and Europe and have always enjoyed the storytelling craft of its reporters. Here I showcase a range of reports
produced for some of their finest.

BBC Berlin

Various news and feature packages shot for a wide array of BBC outlets
over the past few years.

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BBC Trending examine the murder of a Berlin teenager in March 2018 and how it was manipulated by right-wing political groups to agitate against immigrants.

BBC Middle East – 2018

Various news packages shot for BBC News in the Middle East during the course of 2018.

In the last few months of 2018, I was in the running for the Beirut job for the Beeb and spent time in the bureau working with
Martin Patience and then in Istanbul
with Mark Lowen.

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BBC Africa – 2010

A collection of packages shot and edited for the BBC while on assignment in Africa.

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Between 2009 and the end of 2010 I worked extensively for the BBC out of Johannesburg and here are a selection of news packages
I shot and edited for them.
Adil Bradlow

BBC News – Global Showcase

BBC Berlin

BBC Middle East – 2018

BBC Africa – 2010