Jeroen Akkermans

Jeroen Akkermans

Jeroen Akkermans (* 1963 ) is a Dutch journalist , foreign correspondent and documentary filmmaker .

Career

Akkermans began his career in 1990 as a producer, editor and reporter for RTL News' European editorial team in Luxembourg. He then worked as a correspondent in Moscow. He had previously gained experience at Super Channel , Reuters TV and European Business Today. Since 2001 he has been working from Berlin. For his reports and as a correspondent for RTL News, he traveled across Germany, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In Russia he shot the documentary Geiseln des Gulag ("Gijzelaars van de Goelag").

From 1996 to 2001 Akkermans was a correspondent in London. On August 12, 2008, Akkermanns was wounded in the leg during a Russian bombing raid in the Georgian city of Gori . His colleague, 39-year-old cameraman Stan Storimans , was killed in the attack. In 2009, Akkermans came back to Georgia and made a documentary about the death of Storimans, summarizing the facts of the missile attack on August 12, 2008. Akkermans, along with the widow of Stan Storimans and Georgian survivors of the attack on Gori, sued Russia at the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . In 2014, Akkermans also visited the site of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine several times , where he collected evidence in favor of a missile launch .

Works (selection)

• 1995: Hostages of the Gulag ( Gijzelaars van de Goelag , documentary), OCLC 69090771 .

Fonts

• Heimwee naar de gevangenis. RTL 4, Hilversum 2002, OCLC 202159358 , ( Dossier ).
• Interview - Geliefde vraagbaak. (Items). Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging No. 5, Amsterdam 2008, ISSN  0926-4264 , OCLC 227023429 .
• He zijn border: 20 jaar correspondent in Europe. Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-9-046-80422-3 .

Awards

• In 1994 he received the Dick Scherpenzeel Prize for reporting on the war in Chechnya .

Web links

• Publications by Akkermans, Jeroen. on worldcat.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeroen Akkermans. on nieuwamsterdam.nl, accessed March 7, 2013.
2. ^ Bombs on Georgia: Dutch TV journalist killed in a Russian air strike. at spiegel.de, accessed on March 7, 2013.
3. ↑ Suffered during the Russian-Georgian war in Gori Dutch on Russia in the European Court of Justice. ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on gruzianews.ru, accessed March 7, 2013. 
4. ↑ MH17 crash: My revealing fragments from east Ukraine. BBC News, April 16, 2015, accessed April 16, 2015 . 
5. ↑ 1994 Winnaar Persprijs - Jeroen Akkermans.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on lokaalmondiaal.net, accessed March 7, 2013.