Rory Carroll
Rory Carroll (* 1972 ) is an Irish journalist who works for The Guardian .
Life
Carroll studied at Blackrock College, Trinity College and later at Dublin University . He started his work as a journalist in 1995 for the Irish News newspaper. In 1997 he went to London to work for the Guardian.
Carroll was a correspondent for the Guardian in Rome between 1999 and 2002. Between 2002 and 2005 he was based in Africa and based in Johannesburg . He wrote about the numerous challenges facing Zimbabwe and South Africa, and about the food and health problems of Africa. His article on rape in the Congo was used as a preface to an essay for a Human Rights Watch book on torture.
In January 2005 he was sent to Baghdad to report on the situation in Iraq. On October 19, 2005, Carroll was kidnapped while talking to a victim of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship. The interview was organized with the help of Muqtada al-Sadr's office. The kidnappers released Carroll a day later.
In April 2006, the Guardian sent him to Caracas to work as a correspondent for Latin America.
In March 2013 he published El Comandante, Hugo Chávez ’s Venezuela . The book has been translated into Chinese, Estonian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.
He is currently reporting from Los Angeles on the USA, especially the West Coast. He has written numerous articles on immigrants and immigration policy in the United States.
credentials
- ^ Torture - A Human Rights Perspective . Retrieved August 7, 2012.
- ↑ Guardian in shakeup of foreign desk. The Guardian . April 12, 2006
- ↑ Tepperman on the book (New York Times)
- ↑ Translations
Web links
- Page from Rory Carroll
- "Guardian journalist abducted in Baghdad" from The Guardian .
- Rory Carroll in The Guardian
- News of Carroll release from RTÉ .
- Rory Carroll on the legacy of Chavez (Tagesspiegel)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carroll, Rory |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |