>From BBC World News This is background data on the reporter behind the recent BBC reports on KLA abductions, torture and organ smuggling. I suspect he hasn't made his name portraying Serbs as victims:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7990984.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7990761.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/icij/journalists/profile/828/ Michael Montgomery, United States, is an award-winning correspondent for American Radio Works, the largest investigative/documentary unit in U.S. public radio and a division of Minnesota Public Radio. A veteran of radio, television and newspapers, Montgomery has reported from Europe, Africa and Latin America on such topics as human rights, war crimes tribunals, corruption, criminal justice and prisons. His work airs often on National Public Radio. Montgomery and co-producer Stephen Smith were finalists for the 2000 ICIJ Award for their investigative documentary Massacre at Cuska, an account of one massacre in Kosovo told through interviews with victims and perpetrators. The documentary also won a Dupont-Columbia gold baton, the top award in U.S. broadcast journalism. Montgomery began his career as a newspaper reporter covering the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Montgomery was a staff correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Los Angeles Times. As a Balkans-based correspondent for six years, Montgomery reported extensively on the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, including the siege of Sarajevo. In the late 1990s he worked as a television producer for CB! S News in New York City. He lives in San Francisco, California. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/team2.html http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/images/montgomery.gifContributing Producer Michael Montgomery has worked in national radio, television, and newspapers. He joined American RadioWorks as a correspondent in July, 1999. Prior to that, Montgomery was an associate producer at CBS Reports and 60 Minutes, where he covered national and international stories, including an extensive investigation into Mexican drug trafficking. >From 1989 to 1995, Montgomery was a Balkans correspondent for the London Daily >Telegraph, covering the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the break >up of Yugoslavia. He reported extensively on the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, >including the siege of Sarajevo. Montgomery also covered the region as a freelance reporter for Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Montgomery was a Fulbright scholar in Belgrade from 1987 to 1989, researching Serbian nationalism. He graduated from Macalester College with a degree in International Studies. Montgomery is the recipient of an Alfred E. Dupont-Columbia Gold Baton and Overseas Press Club Award. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/analysis/18046/ Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
