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Maggie O'Kane is an Irish journalist and documentary film maker. She has been most associated with ''
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'' newspaper where she was a foreign correspondent who filed graphic stories from
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while it was under
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between 1992 and 1996. She also contributed to the
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from Bosnia. She has been editorial director of GuardianFilms, the paper's film unit, since 2004. Since 2017, she has been chair of the Board of the
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.


Education

O'Kane received her secondary education at Loreto Convent,
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,
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, Ireland at the College of Commerce (now DIT) where she completed a journalism diploma. She received a
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degree in Politics and History at
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before studying at the Institut des Journalistes en Europe in Paris.


Career

From 1982 to 1984, O'Kane worked for the ''
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'' in Dublin and then in 1984 to 1989 for ''
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''. She then covered Eastern Europe as a freelance journalist contributing to ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. From 1992 to 1996, she covered the
Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...
for ''
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''. Since 2003 she has been the editorial director for ''Guardian Films''. In its first three years, the company made 30 films – mostly for television – including the ''Baghdad Blogger'' reports, featuring Baghdad resident '' '
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' '' – whose blog ''Where is Raed?'' was printed in ''
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'' and ''
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'' during the occupation of his city. They were shown on
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's ''
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'' programme. Some of these were also shown in 2007 in two collections by ''
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International''. Kane was also reporter in ''Sex on the Streets'', made by ''GuardianFilms'' for the UK's
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television channel. It focussed on violence against women working as prostitutes. She was also reporter in the company's ''Spiked'' – also for Channel 4 – about the use
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s. In the first half of 2007, ''GuardianFilms'' won two Amnesty International awards and a
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award for its Iraq coverage. On 15 March 2013, it was reported by the Real News Network that O'Kane had just finished producing a documentary for ''GuardianFilms'' on the investigation of the war crimes committed in Iraq on behalf of the Bush Administration, focusing on the roles played in the trickle-down military system. She argues, through her documentary, that the United States army, to quell Sunni rebellion and insurgency, armed and funded national, radical Shia militants to aid them in quelling Sunni insurgency. Subsequently, this Shia "police force" came to number approximately 12,000 men and are reported to have acted as, not containment forces, but as death squads, their killings reaching 3,000 per month at their height.


Awards

* 1992 UK Journalist of the Year * 1993
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with Ed Vulliamy,
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for reports from Yugoslavia. * 1996 James Cameron Memorial Trust Award for Journalism, * 1999 Shortlisted,
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; Shortlisted as ''Feature Writer of the Year'' at the ''British Press Awards'' * 2002: ''European Journalist of the Year'' * 2018: 'Irish Red Cross journalism excellence award'


References


External links


GuardianFilms Website''British Film Institute'' filmography to 2004
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