Eric Campbell - Reporting on the World

Speaking at Engage 2009: Engineers Without Borders National Conference Eric Campbell is one of Australia's most experienced international reporters. In a 20 year career he has worked in more than 50 counties and covered some of the biggest breaking stories of the past decade.

Eric was the ABC's Moscow correspondent from 1996 to 2000, covering upheavals in the former Soviet Union as well as the conflicts in Afghanistan and Kosovo. His stories include the coming of the Taliban to Afghanistan and their ousting five years later, both of Russia's wars in Chechnya, the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo and the overthrow of Milosovic.

Eric has won a Logie Award for news reporting and two New York Festivals world medals for environmental reporting. He was a two-time Walkley Awards finalist for his coverage of the Kosovo war.

In 2005 his book 'Absurdistan' was published, documenting the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth.

Here Eric gave an amazing account of 'reporting on the world' - drawing on his extensive experience as a veteran journalist.

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