Track a newsman by tracking his news, Tune into NDTV Profit for Reporter
NDTV Profit this week brings to you Reporter, a feature documentary by award-winning cinematographer Eric Metzgar.
Reporter is about Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, who almost single-handedly put the crisis in Darfur on the world map. The documentary, takes you through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country in the midst of a humanitarian crisis where Kristof’s shine his light. The film puts the viewer in Kristof’s pocket, revealing the man and his methods.
But Reporter has a second agenda….by tracking a newsman, we track his news! In the summer of 2007, Kristof traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where instability has lead to 5.4 million people till date being killed in over the last decade. On this trip, Kristof brought with him two young Americans, a student and a teacher. Their reflections of the heart-wrenching journey were posted alongside Kristof’s bi-weekly columns. So to get the world to care, he goes in search of individuals whose stories will reflect the country's desperate crisis and mobilize readers worldwide.
Get an insight on how Kristof completes his charge of putting Congo on the international agenda in Reporter, this Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 10:00 pm with a repeat telecast on the following Sunday at 5:00 pm only on NDTV Profit.
