Jason Motlagh
Jason Motlagh is a multimedia journalist who was until recently TIME Magazine’s Kabul correspondent. He has reported from around Afghanistan and more than 30 countries for leading US and international media, including The Economist, New Republic, US News and World Report, Christian Science Monitor and Frontline/WORLD. He also reports, shoots, and edits video features for Time.com, AFPTV and RT; and has produced news documentaries for PBS’ Foreign Exchange and Al Jazeera English.
Jason has received five grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover insurgencies and human rights issues across South Asia. His long-form work was cited in the 2010 Best American Travel Writing anthology. And last year, his four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks for VQR, widely acclaimed as the definitive account, won the National Magazine Award for News Reporting.
Recent work:
- For Time.com
- Sixty Hours of Terror, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2009
- Maoists in the Forest: Tracking India’s Separatist Rebels, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2008
- The Slog Gets Harder, The Economist, July 21st, 2010
- Million Dollar Militia, People and Power, Al Jazeera English, September 8, 2010
- Return of the Warlords, People and Power, Al Jazeera English, September 8, 2010
