Eric Campbell
Eric Campbell is one of Australia's most experienced international reporters.
In a 20-year career he has worked in more than 50 countries, 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 Milosevic.
From 2001 to 2003 he was based in Beijing covering China, Afghanistan and Central Asia until he was injured in a suicide bombing in Kurdistan in the first days of the Iraq war.
After recovering from his injuries, Eric joined Foreign Correspondent as its Sydney-based roving reporter.
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.
