Andrew North (journalist)

Andrew North is a journalist and writer. For several years, North was the BBC's South Asia correspondent.[1] North has been covering Afghanistan since 2001, and was based in Kabul for the BBC for many years.[2] He has also worked in conflicts in Iraq, Libya, and Georgia.[3] From 2021, he has written about the Taliban’s return to power for a wide range of international publications, with repeated trips to the region. His work has appeared in Nikkei Asia, The Economist, Tortoise, Foreign Affairs, and The Guardian, and various other outlets.[3]

North was nominated for the RTS Foreign Reporter of the Year award for his coverage of the 2008 Georgia-Russia war, for a Webby for his multi-media web story "The Big Draw: Selling the Soviet Past” on markets of left-over relics of the Soviet period in Georgia.[4] Some of his work uses a mix of reportage and drawing.[5] In 2022, North was also nominated for a Foreign Press Association (London) award, for "Afghanistan nightmare: a humanitarian crisis that threatens to dwarf all others", for Nikkei Asia, with Paula Bronstein.[6]

North has been a speaker at various journalism festivals.[3][7] His analysis has been cited in various books and articles, including on the culture of foreign correspondents and their relationship with fixers, and on the use of mobile phones by insurgents to spread their messaging.[8][9]

North was the subject of wide coverage when he was detained by the Taliban in Kabul in February 2022, while working on an assignment for the UN.[10] After being detained for several days, North was released and allowed to leave the country.[11] His arrest was widely covered in international media.[12] The Committee to Protect Journalists described his detention as a "a sad reflection of the overall decline of press freedom and increasing attacks on journalists under Taliban rule."[13] In 2012, North had described a looming tipping point for the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan, and a drastic change in the mood of the country.[14]

North is the author of "War & Peace & War: Twenty Years in Afghanistan", an account of Taliban resurgence over two decades, told through the lives of five Afghans.[15]

References

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  1. ^ "Andrew North - South Asia correspondent". BBC News. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Andrew North". Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Andrew North". Pew Literary. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  4. ^ "EurasiaNet Garners Nomination for an "Oscar of the Internet"". EurasiaNet. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. ^ North, Andrew (8 December 2021). "Tbilisi Sketches". Culinary Backstreets. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  6. ^ "FPA Media Awards 2023". www.fpalondon-awards.org. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Zeg 2022". www.zegfest.com. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  8. ^ Murrell, Colleen (2014). Foreign Correspondents and International Newsgathering The Role of Fixers. Taylor & Francis. p. 22. ISBN 978-1317906988.
  9. ^ Matheson, Donald; Allan, Stuart (2009). Digital war reporting. Cambridge: Polity. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-7456-4275-8.
  10. ^ Graham-Harrison, Emma (11 February 2022). "Taliban release British journalist Andrew North from detention in Kabul". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  11. ^ Foreign Staff (11 February 2022). "Taliban releases 'kidnapped' former BBC journalist, Andrew North". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  12. ^ Korpar, Lora (11 February 2022). "Taliban Says It Released Detained UN Journalist Andrew North, Others". Newsweek. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  13. ^ Crouch, Erik (11 February 2022). "Taliban arrests 2 journalists on assignment with United Nations". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  14. ^ North, Andrew (23 February 2012). "Will Afghan Koran row prove Nato's tipping point?". BBC News. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  15. ^ North, Andrew (2024). War, Peace and War: Twenty Years in Afghanistan. London: Bonnier Books. ISBN 9781804184844. Retrieved 21 January 2024.


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