Ed Vulliamy
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Ed Vulliamy is a British journalist and writer. His mother is the children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes
and his grandfather the Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes. He was educated at the independent University College School
and at Hertford College, Oxford
before becoming a journalist. He was New York correspondent for The Observer
for six years (1997 to 2003) and Rome correspondent for The Guardian
.
He reported extensively on the mid-1990s war in Bosnia
, particularly on the concentration camps in northwest Bosnia operated by the Bosnian Serbs for the incarceration of Muslim and Croat inmates at Omarska and Trnopolje. He also extensively covered the 9/11 attacks, while living in New York in 2001. At the outbreak of the current war in Iraq, in March 2003, he was one of the first reporters on the ground.
He was awarded Granada Television
's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award for 1992 and the James Cameron
Award in 1994 and named Foreign Reporter of the Year
in 1993 and 1997.
Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes is an English author and illustrator. She has written more than fifty books which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated over two hundred. She currently lives in London....
and his grandfather the Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes. He was educated at the independent University College School
University College School
University College School, generally known as UCS, is an Independent school charity situated in Hampstead, north west London, England. The school was founded in 1830 by University College London and inherited many of that institution's progressive and secular views...
and at Hertford College, Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
before becoming a journalist. He was New York correspondent for The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
for six years (1997 to 2003) and Rome correspondent for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
.
He reported extensively on the mid-1990s war in Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, particularly on the concentration camps in northwest Bosnia operated by the Bosnian Serbs for the incarceration of Muslim and Croat inmates at Omarska and Trnopolje. He also extensively covered the 9/11 attacks, while living in New York in 2001. At the outbreak of the current war in Iraq, in March 2003, he was one of the first reporters on the ground.
He was awarded Granada Television
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award for 1992 and the James Cameron
James Cameron (journalist)
Mark James Walter Cameron was a prominent British journalist, in whose memory the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given.-Early life:...
Award in 1994 and named Foreign Reporter of the Year
British International Journalist of the Year award
The International Journalist of the Year award is one of the honours given annually by the British Press Awards. The journalist to have won the award most often is Robert Fisk....
in 1993 and 1997.
Publications
- Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War (1994)
- (with David Leigh) Sleaze: The Corruption of Parliament (1997)
- Amexica: War Along the Borderline (2010)
External links
- Selection of Ed Vulliamy's US reporting, 1997-2003
- Vulliamy for The Guardian on Bosnia atrocities and ITN/LM libel case, "Poison in the Well of History"
- KWMU interviews Vulliamy on Prijedor atrocities, Nov. 20, 2007
- Comprehensive account of James Brown's Boston concert after the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King